When asked to rank the number one most pressing environmental issue facing us today (according to me) I find it very hard to even narrow down the choices. I think about the issues the world is facing with overpopulation, energy conservation/innovation and resource depletion. These definitely rank high in my book. After today’s discussion in class I really have put the concern for resource depletion at the forefront.
However big of an issue resource depletion is right now, and how much it is going to really become even more of an issue in the future, I’m not really sure how the leaders of our world are going to combat the problem. It goes without saying, that oil is obviously the number one most exploited resource that there is available in the world today. In the colloquium reader, one of the readings mentioned that water was going to be the next resource out of our reach. I think about this, and it scares me because water, and oil are so much a part of our lives that I really question our survival without it. (Definitely no survival without water.)
If I were given 100 billion dollars to address this global problem of resource depletion, I would have to say that I don’t think I could spend it all on one problem. I think it would be exceedingly important to divvy this money up and spread it out over multiple global problems. The money could go to research and making these issues more known. One of the unfortunate truths is that these issues keep getting swept under the rug until the damage done is not only irreversible but also at a point where people somehow someway are suffering.
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