After oil and other natural resources were discovered, the life style and the environment started and keeps changing. Studies from the Environmental Impact Assessment estimates that Equatorial Guinea’s total oil production is about 320thousands barrels of oil per day. This leads to poor agriculture and extreme climate change in areas such as Bioko Island and Aseng field etc where oil is extracted from the soil. The population is growing on a fast rate, and mineral consumption is growing even faster. Nowadays, human beings are used to a certain life standards such as drive a car, fly around the globe, and Mba2 use of energy.
To conclude we need to make our best effort to help our planet, we are harming our ecosystem and making the problem bigger everyday. We cant be selfish, we need to think about the future generations and in this beautiful planet called
Thirdly, the population will decline significantly in the twenty-first century, changing the face of modern families. Lastly, as technology continually advances, human society will become increasingly socialized within and dependent on a technological world. Indeed, these arguments paint a rather negative picture of the future of human society, however there are some positive aspects, like that of technological advancement that will characterize the twenty-first century. Water is an absolute necessity of life, and yet sources of water around the world are depleting. Tickell explains that no resource is in greater demand than fresh water and this demand doubles every twenty-one years (3).
It is a human desire to improve oneself and to facilitate the effective performance of day to day needs. Looking at history and the present, we can conclude that technology has affected us in three main ways: most importantly it has guaranteed the survival of our species, enabling us to better understand our world, it has enabled communication throughout the world, promoting the sharing of ideas, people, and goods, and finally it has also had detrimental effects on our world, significantly hurting the environment and leading to a world that is less safe than ever before. It is easy to look at only the upsides of technology and its benefits on society, but there are many advocates who believe that it should be limited to mitigate its negative effects. While the invention of smart phones has improved communication between people, what are its impacts on human to human interaction? Does it make us less social?
Unfortunately, the activity of burning or combusting fossil fuels releases various kinds of hazardous substances and pollutants which eventually leads to changes in the environment; such as climate change, global warming, and changes in environmental health. Let us start with the change in climate or climate change. For over the past 150 years, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil have caused the concentrations of heat-trapping "greenhouse gases" to increase significantly in our atmosphere. These gases prevent heat from escaping to space, somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse. It would change our climate, but it would not bring us close to the level of uninhabitable Venus.
The consequence of climate change is serious. It will cause sea level rises，more flooding and stronger storm. Secondly, the shortage of fossil fuels is also a big problem, which is means fossil fuels are finite and non-renewable. If people cannot use them reasonably and economically, fossil fuels will be used up very soon. Klass model is a good illustration of this problem and it assumes a continuous compound rate and computes fossil fuel reserve depletion times for oil, coal and gas of approximately 35, 107 and 37 years, respectively (Shahriar & Erkan, 1).
Attacks by terrorists or rebels on important infrastructure and pipelines are a big problem for energy consumers. A big contribution to the energy crisis and shortages are strikes in the Middle East. This is a big problem because the Middle East has the largest oil production than anywhere else, meaning if there are successful strikes in the Middle East, there will be a global energy shortage as there is nowhere else that supplies as much oil as they do. Although, the U.S is now the world’s third largest producer, about 65% of our known oil supply has already been burned. The U.S has 4% of the world’s population yet consumes 25% of the world’s oil supply.
(WMO, 2010). Over the last century however, climate change has largely been due to human activities, adding a large concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. This comes as a result of burning fossil fuels, the degradation of land for agricultural purposes and deforestation. CO2 levels have increased from 280 parts per million (ppm) in the middle of the nineteenth century to 388ppm at the start of the twenty-first century. (UN Chronicle, 2013).
Today, climate change is being driven by the addition of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the earth's atmosphere at rates faster than the planet's normal mechanisms can adjust to. The result is increasing concentrations of these gases in the atmosphere, and because they trap heat, increasing temperatures. This hurts people, animals, and plants. How do we know this? Scientists predict that if the increase in greenhouse gas emissions continues unabated, temperatures will rise by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, potentially causing dramatic and irreversible changes to the climate.
“But by 2030, it is estimated world CO2 emissions will be 63% higher than today, as global demand for energy grows.” (Source 5: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4216302.stm BBC produced website showcasing an article written by a specialist in environmental issues. Concerning the above fact, that nuclear energy provides CO2 as does the use of fossil fuels, this fact shows that as the world asks for more energy, our energy sources will have contributed highly to global warming regardless of being nuclear or not. It shows that by 2030 carbon emissions will be immensely higher than today as a result of fossil fuels today and existing nuclear reactors.) “1/4 of the country’s (Chernobyl) best farmlands and forests have been poisoned for hundreds of years by Caesium 137 and Strontium 90.” (Source 6: http://www.chernobyl-children.org.uk/disaster.html a website produced by a