The Importance Of Pollution On The Environment

Throughout the years pollution has become a global issue we face when it comes to our environment and we know that increase has a lot to do with the growing population around the world. Yet, as we continue to grow in numbers of people, we also continue to lack a sufficient amount of natural resources to go around as well as places to absorb all of the waste we create. We have been given natural resources that can be taken for granted so easily because we never think of what life will be like when they’re gone. We have never had to live in a world without them so we need to learn, globally, how to use the resources we have in the best ways possible as well as learn to conserve them in the best ways possible. The main changes that have been …show more content…
These include some of the natural resources that we do not know how to survive without like water, fossil fuels, land, soil and minerals (Econation, 2015). One way to help solve this depletion is to eliminate the unequal distribution of these resources we see between different groups of the human population. The rich tend to have an over abundance of resources, while the poor are much more limited. When people have more than what they actually need there tends to be a bigger amount wasted rather than used. If we were able to get the rich to waste less, then the poor would have more resources to available to them, creating a much more equal distribution between the two (USIP, 2007). The example above can also be used when speaking of the distribution of resources between countries. Developed countries have the advantage because once they become industrialized; they then become dependent on the imports of the natural resources that helped them do so (USIP, 2007). The problem with this increase in industrialization, on top of the intense reliance on resources, is the amount of pollution it has caused along the way (Hunter, …show more content…
This is essential due to the fact that the large amount of pollution directly affects the current climate changes happening throughout the environment. Global warming is the biggest climate issue we face today and most do not realize the effect that this has on our natural resources, and more specifically are agricultural resources (Magdoff, 2013). Agriculture/agricultural soil is one of the natural resources needed in order for the human population to survive; it is our main source of food. If the climate continues to change, the crops will not grow the same and there will be a shortage in health foods such as fruits and vegetables, the food groups that cannot be made the same in a factory. The 2014 World Food Prize Symposium stated that, “growing enough food for our expanding population has become the greatest challenge in human history” (Dimick,