The Risks of Renewable and Nonrenewable Resource Utilization

Sustainability is currently a global concern. In recent years scientists have publicised theories that the Earth will not be able to cope with the exponential growth of pollution and resource consumption.

“Many current discussions about sustainability focus on the ways in which human activity...can be maintained in the future without exhausting all of our current resources… there has been a close correlation between the growth of human society and environmental degradation - as communities grow, the environment often declines” (603).

First, the current development of our natural resources is unsustainable because we are using much more than the amount that nature can reproduce for future generations. For example, we are cutting down trees faster than they could grow back and we use fossil fuels that by some estimates take "millions of years to form." This is clearly not sustainable because we are using resources quicker than the amount that nature produces every

Renewable energy: energy in which comes from natural resources that are naturally replenished, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat (Bhatia, 2014). This essay is focused on the main three renewable energies, wind, sunlight, and water. Renewable resources are well on the way to out rule the fossil fuel industry because of the diminishing amount of fossil fuels left in the world and increase of renewable resource use, the damage fossil fuels do to the environment, and the various positive aspects that renewable resources bring.

ou can only have so much good before it is all gone. Resource depletion is the biggest environmental issues known to man. As humans we’re using what we have to live, but we use more than we give out. Through science, we’re finally starting to understand that people are using too much of the resources and altering the face of the earth. If we’re not careful, these problems can’t be fixed.

The definition of sustainability is the ability to support a long term ecological balance while not harming the environment or depleting its natural resources. According to Robert Goodland and his essay “The Case that the world has reached limits” the world is currently being run unsustainably, “being fueled by inherited fossil fuels is the best single example” (Goodland 602). Fossil fuels are non renewable gases and oils and we are using them to provide 60 percent of the global energy, because of the extensive usage of these nonrenewable fossil fuels, we barely have fifteen years left of reserves. Goodland uses his essay to build on Brundtland’s leads to gain and maintain sustainability, claiming that we need a “new era of economic growth” to meet the needs of sustainability (Goodland 602). Goodland

It cannot be denied that, in at least some areas, the invention and progression of technology has benefitted the human race. With the growing industrialization of the world in the last centuries the lives of many people have been made easier. But, this growth of technology is not without its consequences and people are not without their concerns. While industrialization has had its benefits, the environmental cost of this progress is immense, and the impact it has on nature can be hard to swallow. It may seem like talk of the environment is something to be left to scientists or activists specializing in that particular field, but they are

Humans are the biggest enemy of the Earth and they are the most polluting species. Earth is very good at recycling waste, but we are generating far more than earth can handle. Pollution happens at different levels and it does not just impact our planet; it impacts all species, including mankind, who dwell on it (Patterson, n.d.). A group of scientists from McGill University recently published a paper in which they identified the environmentalist’s paradox that affirms, “over the past 40 years, human wellbeing has been steadily improving while natural ecosystems have been declining” (p.

Earth’s natural resources are limited. One simply can not continuously harvest the benefits of natural resources without coming to an end

The Earth is currently facing detrimental environmental issues. These issues have been evident for decades; however, many people have continuously denied them to be problematic or even their existence entirely. While they have managed to get away with the rejection of these problems for many years, it is no longer deniable that the issue of environmental degradation is very real and in need of immediate action. That being said, although there have been a variety of modest attempts to increase environmental sustainability, they have demonstrated to be of minimal effect. Pollution, global warming, deforestation, and a plethora of other human impacts that cause this degradation rapidly continue to destroy the planet, and in order to obstruct them,

Nevertheless, before becoming dependent on renewable resources entirely, politicians should consider the advantages and disadvantages of renewable resources to humans as well as the effect on renewable resources on the

The environment has been put in a dangerous position of not having sufficient amount of resources for current residents and the future generations that are to come. Many things such as personal needs put the environment in this position, but most of time we use these products because they are needed. Earth has become reliant on the resources, therefore we use up our resources way too fast. Our current obstacle to obtaining sustainability is we don't manage our resources, and they are used too often when there is not enough to begin with. Individually we are responsible for ourselves and the actions that are used to take care of the environment. To reach sustainability, there needs to be a limit of how much is used.

50 years of innovation and urbanization, we were blinded by the city lights and smokes that we do not seem to see the importance of taking good care of our environment, especially the nonrenewable sources. The consumers’ needs quickly became wants, and for the producers, wants simply mean profit, and profit is money. Money is everything to people nowadays. We would resort to everything that could provide us even the littlest amount of money, no matter what the repercussions would be, thus, the destroying of the resources. We are slowly killing the planet but we cannot see it because we are too busy trying to get things we believe we need. It is said that the earth’s weight is still the same as it was first created. Come to think of it, we do give and take with the nature, we take its resources, invent something useful that we consume, but we give it back as waste and

"In a world where the population is becoming more environmentally conscious, it’s no surprise that there is an increasing concern over energy. One particular source of energy is, quite reasonably, a large agent of that concern and has even found its way onto the first presidential debate of 2016. Although once a beneficial technological advance, coal is inefficient and is responsible for a wide variety of pollution; it needs to be eliminated as a source of energy.

Since people are not able to come to terms with the fact that resources are running out, they are hindering people from expanding and looking towards new and sustainable types of resources. These new resources can help change lives, and to help with the environmental damage that the human race has already caused. With this in mind, we have to look towards the future of humanity as a whole, and since people are not embracing these new and improved ideas for sustained living, they are ultimately causing the fall of human society, since soon, we will be running out of these resources. Resources today are still being fought over, and that will only escalate over time unless we strive to a better lifestyle, and people who are not coming to terms with the idea of sustainability, will only cause more outbreaks of war and infighting over resources. These resources are already sparse enough, there is no reason to continue using them, or even speeding up the process in which these resources are being used up. The idea of sustained living is slowed by people who are unable to embrace this idea because they hinder the advancements