Since the early ‘90’s the world has drastically increased the number of natural resources

being used. In nearly two decades, during my lifetime, I wonder how much the world has

drastically changed. If you could see satellite imagery of the world two decades ago as opposed

to now, how much excess material have we used? How much has our human population

increased, while the animal population continues to decrease, die, and become diseased as a

result of our increased intervention?

The world goes through a period of stages. There is a stage where the world is entirely

frozen, followed by an eventual thawing from the latitude towards the poles. This is the stage the

earth is at right now. Eventually the polar ice caps melt, and the world becomes tropical for a few

thousand years. What happens after a few thousand years? The water stagnates due to a lack of

convection. It seems that the polar ice caps have a pivotal role to play in the convection of water;

they ensure our water keeps circulating. Scientists have found proof that five out of six major

extinctions have occurred as a result of water stagnation and the resulting bacterial blooms, and

deaths. Essentially, the mass extinctions are a result of massive methane gas release, and the

choking of all life in every body of water, worldwide. How will our world end? More likely than

not, if we don’t kill it first, everything on this planet will die as a result of methane poisoning.

What I see as a major issue is that too many people place emphasis on economy, and money

more so than they do on environment and our direct impact on it. If you ask me, it’ll take more

than a handful out of millions reducing their carbon footprint to change our environmental

impact. What are the biggest causes of carbon emissions worldwide? Off the top of my head,

there are three major sources, these being; carbon sinks, worldwide use of vehicles, and

increased use of industrial companies. The race to tap out every possible oil source the world

over isn’t helping a single thing. In fact I can foresee this race to be a dangerous one. Our water
supplies are slowly becoming worse as we continue to dump toxins into them, and from

increasing algal blooms as a result of raw sewage “elimination”. On top of everything, it is

estimated that only ten percent of our landmass is top soil. This top soil is what we use to plant

food. Now I ask, why do we spend so much time and money worrying more so about oil, and

alternate fuel products as opposed to soil? I don’t think that increasing the amount of pesticides

and genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) is going to help at all. In fact, the use of GMO’s

could further hinder agricultural efforts. I don’t see GMO’s as being the next big step for

humanity. I could write a whole other essay on the topic. But essentially, the pesticides used

further increase toxicity, in a world filled with an over abundance of harmful toxins, and the

constant pesticide exposure further harms our already lacking top soil. On top of poorly lacking

information available regarding the side effects of GMO’s, farmers are using methods that

further waste the amount of available soil we have at our disposal.

We waste tons of water every day for “disposing” of our sewage, and for flushing out as much

oil as we can possibly get from our already suffering planet.

In today’s society people place more emphasis on economy and money than on our

already suffering, and delicately balanced environment. We force animals to madness and death

as we take more land. If we want to have less of an impact on our environment, we need a drastic

change in lifestyle. Some say progressing technology is that only way to do it, but there are

better ways to go about bettering the world than through technology alone. People have become

increasingly lazy. Men are meant to labor, not sit idly on their asses for hours at a time. Humans

adapted to live a life filled with hard labor. Relying on technology to do all the work for us will

only continue to create issues related to finding resources for running our machines.