Conservation of Natural Resources

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Conservation of Natural Resources: A threat to Man-kind’s own Existence Being the most highly developed and evolved mammal on the planet, man possesses certain special characteristics. Man applies all their power and intelligence for food and development. Humans adopt new ways to fulfill their needs and often make improvements in old ways to derive resources and to fulfill their desire more efficiently. This is how they develop new technologies for utilization of natural resources. Natural resources are renewable and non-renewable, therefore proper utilization of our natural resources is the need of today. Human beings utilize most of resources like air, water, land, minerals, flora, fauna, fuels, and energy for their growth and development. Now the problem is how and up to what extent human beings should utilize various resources. Resources are valuable gift of nature. Hence use of natural resources should depend on knowledge, availability, type, quantity, value, and the necessity for resources. The use of resources should be in limit not to exhaust them, so that ecological balance within the nature should also remain undisturbed. In the past, the man was not so advanced and was satisfied with what he received from the nature due to his limited needs. Thus, there was a complete balance among all the components of the natural environment in the past. In today’s society, the story has become very different due to human activities of consumption and misuse of natural resources and the explosion of population. Therefore, nature has lost its capacity of tolerance. Morales 2 Fast growth in human population has led to the fast rate of consumption of natural resources and creation of wastes. Human activities of cutting trees, killing animals, damaging and mixing poisonous wastes in air and water are creating severe crisis in the environment and natural

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