Unit 4 Ethical Issue- World Resource Use

World Resource Use

It is a known fact that the population today is using more and more natural resources with no real focus on how to conserve them in the future. There are groups of people who work very hard on this issue to try to come up with solutions, but in reality, I still think the majority of the population takes it for granted what we have now and puts this issue on the backburner for issues in the future.
Population growth by itself has some effect on straining resources, but when you add in the economical development and really look at how much resources one single individual uses, it is eye opening. When you have facts showing the relationship of one U.S. child consuming the same resources as 300 children in Ethiopia, this is an enormous difference. Again, I think alot of this consumption comes from the fact that many things are taken for granted here in the U.S. that populations over in third world countries don't have (cars for transportaion everywhere causing pollution, huge factories that make just about everything, clean supply of drinking water, more than adaquate food source, and many other extra luxeries- just look at all of the professional sports players and movie stars with at least two or more million dollar homes and 10 different vehicles, ect.). I'm not saying that I think everyone should live in poverty, but I do feel that people need to be more aware of what they are doing and should do everything possible to help conserve our current resources (carpooling, recycling, not being lazy and littering everywhere, ect. ect. ) Also if we can help third world countries get to higher level of living then things might balance out a little and they would not be having such a high fertility rate (along with high infant death rate), and this would eventually lead to a more steady growth instead of exteme increases.
There is no quick or easy solution to the problem at hand, but I believe that awarness is a step in the right direction. The bottom line is this world is only going to be able to support so much if we just keep taking and taking and do nothing in return to try to preserve or keep the natural order of our environment.