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The consumption of the world's resources (oil, and water etc.) is increasing at a dangerous rate. What are causes and solutions?

#consumption #world #resources #oil #water #rate
In the developing world, it is undeniable that the demand for exploiting
world’s
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the world’s
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resources
such
 as oil,
water
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and water
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 is increasing. Overconsumption,
however
, may
leads
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lead
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 to several consequences related to
natural
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nature
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 and
environment
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the environment
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.
This
 essay will discuss the causes of
this problems
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this problem
these problems
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 including overpopulation and agricultural purpose,
as well as
 suggest some suitable solutions for these reasons. The foremost reason
of
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for
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 overconsumption is overpopulation.
According to
 Worldometer, the current
populations
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population
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 is 7,9
billions
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billion
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people
, and
this
 number is increasing unstoppably every
seconds
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second
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. The higher number of living
people
, the higher
material
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the material
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 demands will be.
Due to
 the high
needs
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need
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of
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for
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 daily materials, more factories are
builts
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built
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 to exploit
resources
 to produce devices and
equipments
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equipment
types of equipment
pieces of equipment
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 in order to meet
people
 life quality. As a
results
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result
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, natural
resources
 would be depleted since many
of
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resources
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the resources
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 are non-renewable,
such
 as coal, bronze, metal quarries and so on.
Hence
, the depletion of natural
resources
 will continue as long as the world population increases. Another cause that results in over-exploiting is logging.
Due to
 the need for expanding areas for residential living or agricultural purposes, citizens and governments chop down trees and replaced
with
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them with
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 houses, residential places or
factory
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factories
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 for production. These decisions might lead to many drastic natural disasters
such
 as drought,
flooding
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and flooding
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. Even worse, the ecosystem will be unbalanced
due to
 the lack of natural habitats.
According to
many
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 research, deforestation is the main reason that leads to flooding and heavily affects the national
economic
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economy
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as well as
 living quality.
The
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 possible solution to tackle
this
 problem is to use alternative
resources
 to produce daily materials.
Instead
 of using plastic to manufacture disposable plastic bags or plates, we can
uses
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use
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 decomposable or eco-friendly
material
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materials
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such
 as paper to reduce the exploitation of oil
as well as
 plastic
wastes
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waste
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. In terms of
decrease
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decreasing
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 the rate of deforestation,
government
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the government
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 can
zoning
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zone
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residentials
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residential
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area
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areas
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 and provide legal areas just for agricultural
purpose
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purposes
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, in order to conserve natural places for living creatures.
To conclude
, various actions can be taken to solve the problem of resource overconsumption. If
people
 all around the world join
hand
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hands
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 in using eco-friendly products and buying economically, the rate of
resources
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resource
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 consumption would be decreased.
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