Sustainable Survival Research Paper

Sustainable Survival Before evolving into beings that lived all across the globe, and even some existing in the orbital space, humans lived in small civilizations that continually moved from places to places. These past humans lived as hunter gatherers that only took what they needed from the environment around them without upsetting the homeostasis of the ecosystems. The 21st century is one filled with loss of global life stability, poverty and disappearing ecosystems. The existence of past civilizations has proven that these issues could pull modern humans into the same fate as past people have, leading them to their own doom, yet modern technology and economy can prove to create a new and sustainable world for many generations to come. …show more content…
With over 7 billion people living on earth, it is inevitable that the earth's natural resources will be need in some form or to some extent. Yet people have been consuming “renewable resources faster than they can regenerate” (Brown 3). The earth and the fruits it bears for humans have been ripped from the ground to try and sustain humanity, yet even with so much of the earth being used, people all across the world continue to live in poverty with little access to these natural, clean resources. The new generation of humans has found a way to use “resources that accumulated over eons of geological time are being consumed in a single human life time,” (Brown 5). By the time that the new generation and all millennials have grown into their old age and near the end of their lives, the earth will follow them and grow weak from over consumption and lack of regrowth. The current generation will be held responsible for the centuries of continuous consumption of natural