Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Overpopulation and resources


The capacity for the human in the ecosystem has been exceeded. According to the logic of Overshoot by William Catton: the amount of stored energy from the sun (including fossil fuels) humans use is the equivalent of ten earths' intake of usable solar energy for photosynthesis.

With all the trash and all that stuff that we throw a lot of tons of topsoil is lost, the survival rate would be only one tenth of the one tenth!! And petroleum is one of the most important resources that would mark in history.

Population has been growing a lot even though all these damages and the lack of resources.

People are dependant on resources, and we need them to live. Overpopulation is causing that all these resources disappeared. In petroleum for example, agriculture will be affected.

I think that overpopulation and resources is a theme that is very important nowadays. Resources are not for ever! We need to take care of them, because population is growing and growing. Also I think that we need to find more alternatives that can help s when all resources come to an end.

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