Name : IMAM SIDIQ

Student Number : 1006674723

Faculty & Class : Faculty of Engineering, MPK B. Inggris-20

TAKING RESPONSIBILITY

Author : Patrick Guntensperger

I choose this article because it involved about natural resources are going to vanish
from earth. Even there are natural resources that can renewable such as water, animals,
lumbers, etc. From this article we will learn how to save our earth.

Resource based industries-mining, oil and gas extraction, lumber and fisheries and
any other industries that takes a natural resources as their raw material have a special set
of responsibilities to the planet and the people who occupy. Certainly those other occupants
need those resources; certainly they benefit from having them extracted, refined, and made
available for use; nevertheless, those resources are a planetary legacy from which a small
segment of the planets population is reaping enormous profits. Fishing industries is one of
the industries that depend from renewable natural resources. They have responsibility to
ensure the survival of the species they capture. Next is the partial renewable resources
industry such as lumber and pulpwood industries. These are described as partial renewable
because the forest can be replanted and continue to resources raw material, but once they
are damage or even destroyed, it will destroy the ecosystem within them and it will not
regenerate in our life time. The last is the non-renewable resources based industries.
Because they have even more compelling and specialized obligation, they have a moral
duty to develop alternative solution to replace the resources they are exploiting.
International law states that they have to spend significant percentage of their revenue to
develop alternative solution to replace the resources they are exploiting.

In this article, the writer wants us to realize that we have taken natural resource
irresponsibility and disregarding our obligation to maintain and take care the sustainability
of this planet.

In my point of view, the writer is correct, because we have become very greedy and
forget our obligation to preserve earth for our next generation, furthermore if we cant
control our greed there is no way we can preserve this planet for our next generation.