Natural resources depletion: causes and consequences

As we mentioned at the beginning, there are two Types of natural resources:

• Renewable resources are those that recover after their reuse, since they are able to restore themselves at a higher speed than their consumption. It is true that some renewable resources, such as sun or wind, are totally renewable, but there are also some resources, such as water or trees, which only if they are consumed and exploited in a responsible way can be defined as potentially renewable. However, activities such as deforestation or inability to make water drinkable exhaustion of potentially renewable resources.
• Instead, the Non -renewable resources exhaustion It is because these are renewed at a lower speed than they are exploited, so a time will come when they are completely exhausted.

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There are many causes of the exhaustion of resources, then some of them:

• He constant increase of world population And the great technological development that is being developed throughout history to this day, has demanded the use of the resources present in the increasingly varied nature and in greater quantities, the most demanded energy resources are mainly the most demanded energy resources.
• He Consumerist life model and overpopulation demand a lot of products and as a consequence a greater exploitation of raw materials, the majority from non -renewable resources sources.
• The use of single -use products as with the plastic of using and throwing, in addition these later or at least they are recycled.
• The programmed obsolescence, that is, system that makes electronic devices have an expiration date. Electronic devices have less duration, in order to force the consumer to acquire new products.
• He Energy consumptionlife is increasingly towards a more technological and virtual lifestyle, using large amounts of energy.
• The unnecessary use of vehicles will come a moment that there are not enough oil reserves for fuel.
• The indiscriminate felling to allocate the land to other uses such as urban, agricultural, livestock or industrial.

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The Natural Resources Shortage It can bring great consequences for both planet Earth and all their living beings. These are some of the Effects of natural resources depletion:

• Fragmentation and destabilization of ecosystems.
• Extinction of species of animal and plant origin.
• Pollution of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, it is a reality that these are seriously contaminated by plastic waste, among others, which as a consequence are a threat to marine and terrestrial species.
• The exhaustion of irreplaceable resources such as the lack of drinking water creates social conflicts, in addition to affecting people’s health.
• Impact on the capitalist and social system that we currently know.

Next, some will be mentioned solutions to avoid the depletion of natural resources:

• Find energy substitutes that are inexhaustible and clean, including solar energy, mareomotor energy or solar energy.
• Promote waste management systems, with the objective of recycling all possible materials to be destined in the production of other products without the need for new raw materials.
• Ecodesign, development of products that occur with raw materials from renewable resources.
• Prohibition of programmed obsolescence, and bet on technologies that are more durable, surely at home they still have some technological device that was developed 10 years ago that continues to work.
• Change of economic system, move from the capitalist economic system when circulating, in which the reduction, reuse and reuse is chosen.
• Educate the population on the base of sustainable and responsible consumption that has future generations.

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