Our civilization is run through the expenditure of energy. Since energy cannot be created out of nothing, it must be converted from something which already exists. We often get such energy out of valuable minerals in the ground. Natural resources such as oil, zeolite, iron and copper are all taken from out of the ground. Since the size of the Earth is not infinite, however, it is obvious that all the oil and zeolites we have will soon enough run out of these natural resources, and then we will be in real trouble as to what we should do.
Consider for a moment just how much of our day to day activities require the use of power and the extraction of resources around the globe. Not only do the precious metals we extract from the Earth power our economy to a large extent, but oil is required for virtually everything we do, silicon is required for our computers, plastic and tires are made from oil, and of course trees are required to be cut down for wood and paper.
The cost this has on our environment cannot be overstated. While it may be argued that trees are renewable resources, the idea that a three hundred year old tree can be cut down and replaced by a small tree, and that this is a fair replacement, is obviously ludicrous. The amount of damage that forest excavation causes to wildlife and the delicate ecology humans rely on cannot be fully grasped.
For lovers of the environment, however, the news is not all bad. Unfortunately, the restoring of the balance of nature may come at the cost of many millions of human lives. As global warming grows more and more into a visible reality, we are beginning to see that the toll human civilization has taken on the Earth may be irreversible. Increasing amounts of natural or great disasters have been the result of our destructiveness and exploitation, and as our mode of behavior does not appear to have changed at all over the past fifty years but only gotten worse, it seems that the reaction or response this will create from our natural world will be even more significant.
It has been said that if human beings were to become extinct, the Earth would flourish but if all insects were to become extinct, human beings would not be able to live for very long. It seems that we have forgotten our own place in nature, and become distracted by television and the false image of the world it portrays. Perhaps with the destruction of some of our civilization, and the complete loss of fuel to run it with, we will be forced to recognize our part in a wider and global ecology.
The idea that human civilization can go forever using non-renewable resources is obviously ludicrous. Unless we start to make real moves to fundamentally shift the ways we lead our lives, the damage we cause to ourselves and the Earth may be irreversible.
Connor Sullivan has researched the mineral zeolite that might be the answer to almost all the medical problems of today. Connor and his wife have been taking the mineral zeolites in order to improve their overall health.
