With the increased global demand for oil and gas, undiscovered areas of the world should be opened up to access more resources. To what extent do you agree?

Today, the demand for fossil-based fuels is increasing rapidly.

Therefore

, to access more

resources

unexplored territories should be opened up.

However

, while I believe that the demand for

oil

and

gas

has increased tremendously, and new territories will help to improve the situation, I think that it will cause massive ecological issues.

First

of all, discovering new sources of

oil

and

gas

would cause problems associated with global warming. Digging enormous areas will increase the likelihood of temperature increase, which will result in melting ice caps.

This

will lead to flooding, famines and major global problems.

Moreover

, these kinds of

resources

will increase emissions into the atmosphere which will strengthen the likelihood of many diseases from tuberculosis to cancer.

Secondly

, countries that rely on the usage of non-renewable natural

resources

of

energy

will not be motivated to use ecologically clean

energy

resources

.

As a result

, after mining the deposits of

oil

and

gas

, they will not be as expensive as they are now.

Therefore

, prices for these

resources

will fall tremendously and it will encourage other countries to use them.

For instance

, Germany has planned to switch to wind and solar

energy

instead

because of the rapid depletion of fossil fuels. I believe that exploitation of ecologically clean

resources

of

energy

would improve the situation To conclude, while some think that the discovery of new deposits of

gas

and

oil

will improve the situation with the scarcity of mineral

resources

, I am of the opinion that it will lead to massive global problems from flooding to climate change.