Resource Sustainability

In our world there are many resources that we use as a civilization; however, many that are crucial to our survival are being exhausted at the rate at which they are being used. Oil, Trees, fresh water, and food are just a few of the resources that are highly vital to our civilization, and as a civilization we must have a balance of sustainability upon our resources. Why are these resources decapitating at such a high rate? Overall I believe that these resources are being drained out due to overpopulation, economic expansion, and greed. As the highly intelligent human beans that we are, we must find ways of overcoming these issues. Sustainability isn’t always the easiest task, but once we find a way to preserve our resources to the point where we don’t have to worry about exhausting them, then we will be one step closer to a better world.

With a world of 6 billion people comes a great responsibility on our civilization to preserve the health and wellness of others, and currently we are not doing this. Everyday America talks about the horrific lifestyle of third world countries and how most of the people that live in them go to bed every night hungry or thirsty. Our world I believe has too many people and this needs to change. Employment rates are low, Money is tight for most families, our food and water sources are limited, and our world’s environment is being destroyed significantly; these issues are capable of being solved if we choose to limit our population growth. When I say limit our population growth I’m not saying kill anybody, but limit the amount of births that come into this world by having one child per family or none. I understand many people will have a problem with this and they find it unfair to limit their freedom, but isn’t selfish when you’re the ones that are hurting others by limiting the amount of resources per person because you chose to have an ample amount of children that must be provided for?

Economic expansion is another concern I believe to be a problem. All companies want to see the same thing- higher profit. They do this by spreading out their business through chains of stores. At first this doesn’t sound bad at all but as you start to think about it you’ll realize that as all these companies are growing the resources that are being used are being used related to the rate at which they grow, and with all the businesses in today’s world we have been using up ample amounts of resources on a daily basis. As a society we must come up with ways of making sure our basic resource necessities aren’t being used up, or destroyed by these companies. A company relies on growth and as it grows so does the amount of resources it uses for production.

Sustainability is no easy task. Every day we have to think of issues we have to solve to make sure our world is in balance. I say it’s time we make it easy on ourselves and do the simple things in everyday life that can help preserve our resources, recycling is a huge step towards this direction and I feel like we know what we have to do to preserve our world but I think we don’t do enough. Our minds our unlimited; however, our resources aren’t.