The United States is the fastest growing industrialized country in the world, now increasing by approximately three million people per year. At this rate, the population will double too more than a half a billion within the next 60 years.

Population growth reduces self sufficiency in food, availability of vital natural resources, and standard of living. Consider that 36 million Americans now live in poverty and do not have sufficient food. As population grows all resources become in shorter supply.

The United States with only 5% of the worlds people, uses 35% of the worlds raw materials and the same amount of the worlds energy.

Worldwide agricultural land is lost at a rate of 15 to 17 million acres per year. Half of all tropical mature forests have been cleared to make way for other ac

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES ( advantages and disadvantages)

· Solar Energy is energy radiated from the sun to the earth.

THE FIVE D'S OF ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION

Environmental education seeks to awaken and explore a persons values. It attempts to educate all citizens about the environment and its problems and to motivate them to solve these problems.

These are some of the important facts that have inspired me to become more conscientious of my world. Although this was not written as a formal essay, I wanted to highlight the areas with the greatest meaning to me. This was non-opinionated, but strictly factual information taken from the text. I hope our species and our planet will endure the test of time, so that future life forms will not have to use archeology to determine the fate of our era, but generations past will tell the saga of how we persevered through virtual self-elimination.

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