Natural resources depletion by Anderson Chen
I believe everyone has a strong demand for natural resources. Natural resources are really important for humans, animals, like plant, for plants, clean soil and freshwater are the most important resources to it. As present-day technology, we still have strong demands for every natural resources. Today i will be talking about natural resources depletion, i want you guys to know one vocabulary before we get into the topic,that’s ‘depletion’. What is a depletion? When a source is being used faster than it can replenished.(http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/consequences_of_depletion_of_natural_resources). So basically, i have two main issue to talk about, which is coal depletion which is depleting, and trees depletion, which is depleting permanently.
One of the biggest issues is coal depletion, what is caol? And how is it formed? Over million of years, dead animals and plants are covered by layers of soil and form coal.(Richard,E & Simkins,J (2013) Natural Resources Malaysia:Wayland)
It’s widely used for burning in homes,and burned for electricity.(Richard,E & Simkins,J(2013) Natural Resources Malaysia:Wayland) so it has been a depleted.
Scientist discovered that there are 3 trillion tinned of coal left in US, unfortunately, only 235 billion tonnes of coal can be mind by present day technology,even there are still many coal left , but it’s depleting fastly. There are some main countries are causing this, which imports and produces the most, there’s China and US, which produces the most, China produces 3117 million tonnes each year, US produces 1147 million tonnes each year, Taiwan, Japan, and india, which imports the most, Taiwan imports 66 million tonnes from foreign country each year, India imports 106 million tonnes each year, and Japan around 80 million tonnes each year(Richard,E & Simkins,J (2013) Natural Resources Malaysia:Wayland). These countries are only main countries whose causes this, other countries also produce and import.
There are 864 billion tonnes of coal lest in the world, people used 37 billion tonnes each year, that means there are only 23 years worth of coal left,(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/3/21/1076665/-23 years worth of coal left)however, following the improvement of technology, people demands of coal gradually become lower.
Trees and Lumber depletion are another big Environmental issue. Lumber is widely used in building, pencil, paper, tissues.etc. Once the trees are extinct, we will die soon, trees can do photosynthesis,they can turn Co2 into Oxygen,for reduce air pollution, so it’s a really important resource for remaining our lives.
My research result shows there are 15 billion trees are chopped down every year,meaning there are 55600 per minute! there are 46% of trees has fallen since the advent of human civilization
(http://www/ran/org/how_many_trees_are_cut_down_every_year)
Now, the americans are trying to stop this situation, they planted at least 1.6 billion trees each year, that’s about 6 trees are planted per person approximately (http://www.washingtorpost.com/news/energy-enviroment/wp/2015/09/…)
For replenish it, we still have to plant more, if everyone plants 3 each year, after few years, world’s trees population will more than we used.
Natural resources is a big and seriously issue, it’s getting worse than worse following the years, we need to save this problem, because it affect us either, we should protect and take care of where we live, not keep harming it,now, do something, you don’t have to plant a tree or do recycling.etc, you can reduce your leftovers,close the door while the AC is on.etc even it is big work or just a little work, it’s all helpful, there are 7.4 billion people live in this beautiful planet we have to used more, but we can also do more!
Bibliography:http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/…
http://www/ran/org/how_many_trees_are_cut_down_every_year
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/3/21/1076665/-23 years worth of coal left
Richard,E & Simkins,J (2013) Natural Resources Malaysia:Wayland
http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/consequences_of_depletion_of_natural_resources