Our civilization is run through the use of energy. Since energy cannot be made out of nothing, it must be converted from something that already is existing. We often get such energy out of useful minerals in the ground. Things such as oil, zeolite, iron and copper are all extracted from out of the ground. Since the whole of the Earth is not infinite, but, it’s obvious that all the oil and zeolites we have will sure enough run out, and then we’ll be in real distress 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 taking of resources around the globe. Not only do the valuable metals we extract from the Earth power our economy to a fantastic extent, but oil is required for virtually all things we do, silicon is needed for our computers, plastic and tires are made from oil, and of course trees are required to be taken down for wood and paper.
The price this has on our environment could not be overstated. While it could be argued that plants are renewable resources, the notion that a three hundred year ancient tree could be cut down and substituted with a small tree, and that this is an adequate replacement, is obviously silly. The amount of hurt that forest excavation causes to wildlife and the delicate ecology humans rely on cannot be fully grasped.
For lovers of the environment, but, the news is not all terrible. Unfortunately, the re-instatement of the balance of the Eart may come at the cost of many millions of people. As global warming grows more and more into a visible reality, we’re starting to see that the toll human civilization has taken on the Earth may be unstoppable. Increasing amounts of fantastic disasters have been the result of our exploitation, and as our mode of behavior does not appear to have altered at all over the past fifty years but only gotten worse, it seems that the reaction this will make from our natural world will be even more significant.
It has been said that if human beings were to become extinct, the Earth would go on, but if all insects were to be extinct, human beings would not be able to live for very long. It appears that we’ve forgotten our own position in nature, and become tricked by television and the fake image of the world it describes. Perhaps with the destruction of a part of our civilization, and the total loss of fuel to run it with, we’ll be forced to recognize our part in a global ecology. The thought that human civilization can go forever with non-renewable resources is clearly ludicrous. Unless we start to make real moves to really shift the ways we lead our lives, the hurt we make to ourselves and the Earth could be irreversible.
Connor Sullivan has researched the mineral zeolite that might be the answer to nearly all the medical problems of today. Connor and his wife have been taking the mineral zeolites in order to improve their overall health.
