Could it all go down the drain? - 2

dona1406's picture

There are so many environmental concerns in the present. Problems range form erosion and desertification to air pollution, water pollution, solid wastes, hazardous wastes, depletion of the ozone layer, and global warming. All these problems emerged by the way humans lead their life. Maybe we ought to learn how to live like Ishmael once said. This could be done by just observing nature. Nature has been enacting for millions of year, and its method has proven to be flawless. I am not saying to go back to the trees, but to consider solutions and stop thinking about money and civilization, but useful knowledge and technology. In addition, by causing all those problems mentioned above, other questions rise. Close to 50% of the world’s flora and fauna could be on the path to extinction within the next 100 years. All this pollution and wastes are destroying habitats, and along its cataclysm, casualty also takes diversity out of this planet. Consequently, the world is less ready for a catastrophe and change in environment and thus more extinction will occur. Besides, population contributes to resource depletion of energy, raw materials, and manufactured goods though over-consumption and waste while depleting world resources by being forced to cut down forests, clear land, burn scarce wood, and so on. Therefore, homo sapiens sapiens could be saved, but the civilization as we know it today might not. We are manipulating a major ecological regulation, that of carrying capacity. We are increasing its value annually, just to feed populations that will expand their numbers if done so. As the environment is degraded, carrying capacity decreases, leaving the environment no longer able to support even the number of people who could formerly have lived in the area on a sustainable basis. No population can live beyond the environment’s carrying capacity for very long; that’s a law.

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