Consumption, Resources, and the Environment: What You Need To Know.
Hey everybody! As some of you may know, I have been taking a biorenewable resources course this semester, primarily to learn about these growing resources and how they are impacting our ever developing world. This blog serves as a way for my friends and family to get a view into what I have been learning and what I thought would be useful information. With the stage the developing world is at now, almost everyone is guaranteed to be “using up” resources in some way - in the form of non-renewable resources (resources that are mined), renewable resources (typically nature derived resources - wood or sunlight), and biorenewable resources (like plants). Specifically in the case of using all these resources, there are significant impacts that stem from consumption. The population is only growing and with that, as mentioned before, it leads to a higher consumption of resources as the world develops at a faster rate. According to a study conducted by Friends of the Earth Europe, humans ...