Our World

Running out of Resources

I stumbled across a highly interesting article whilst I was browsing the Internet recently. According to the WWF (no not the wrestling one, it stands for World Wide Fund for Nature), humans are using the Earth’s resources at an alarming rate, more so than I thought we were. If people continue using resources like they are currently, by 2050 we will need 2 PLANETS worth of resources every year just to have enough! Humans have caused many problems in the world as a whole. Many animal populations have gone down by as much as a third in the past 30 years because of human’s pollution and clearing of forests for natural resources. As of now, humans are using more per year than the Earth has to give. The worst offenders are United States, Canada, UK, Russia, China, Japan, and Australia.

According to the WWF, in order to avoid this unpleasant notion of running out of natural resources and animals, humans must make a drastic change in lifestyles. People can do this by limiting the use of fossil fuels and improving management of industries such as farms and fisheries. Some things are almost unavoidable though, because we have a rising population in the world, which mean that more resources and food will be needed to accommodate for the added population. It is projected that almost 9 billion people will occupy the world in 2050.

Now I know this could be a very biases article, considering it was made in cooperation with the WWF, so they may have exaggerated a bit. But the truth of the matter is that the population of the world is increasing, and the natural resources of our planet will run out sometime. Most resources aren’t renewable. It’s up to us to decide how we use them and to make the most out of out land area. We must think about the future and how our actions will affect it. Land area will run out if we keep developing land and harvesting the resources. Anyone think this article is convincing, or could it be just an exaggeration to scare people into conserving?

Link to Article

posted by Anonymous @ 10/25/2006 05:17:00 PM