The Five Resources

The Five Resources

Written By: Stephanie Smitherman

What types of resources we need to survive? There are five resources that we need to survive. The five resources are water, food, plants, animals, and energy. In this essay I will discuss what the demand is on these resources as the population grows.

Water is our most valuable resources; we can not live with out it. As the population grows what would happen if our wells, lakes, rivers, and streams either dried up or became so polluted, to the point that we can drink from them anymore. This would cause a devastating affect on the world's population. Without water plants would not grow, people would die from dehydration. The availability of water from rich to poor is vast, people in the upper middle class to the rich upper class use water as thought it will last for ever, but people in the lower class or developing countries don't have the resources to use water for what ever. These developing countries people have to drink from ponds and lakes that are shared with animals or wells that are being completely over drawn. So people in these countries are limited to what they can do with the water that they have. According to what I found out from the USGS is that there is only about two and half percent of drinkable water in the world, the rest is either polluted or salt water. Our resources are starting to get smaller and smaller as we speak. So I feel that in the near future that the water supply will end up being limited to what we can do with it.

The second and third most is food and plants. These natural resources, even though they can continually reproduce, are in danger of many hazards. There are environmental concerns, safety issues, the developing of world access to these resources. The environmental concern is the toxins that are sprayed on our food and plant supplies. These toxins have caused problems with air we breathe and with food we eat. People have gotten sick and even died because of all the pollutants that are sprayed upon our fruits and vegetables. But this essay isn't about that is about the limits that could be set. What would happen to the population if there was a limit set on the food supplies? There, in my opinion, would be a major break down in control. The consequences for this happening would be a world wide famine. And that there would cause a mass hysteria. The next natural resource is plants with out them we could not breathe, we would not have places to live and sleep. Plants help make the air breathable for all people, they help by producing food, and wood for us. What would happen to us if the plants all started dying off? One we would not have breathable air, plants help purify that air, by cleaning out the pollutants in it. Two we could not eat, Plants grow 90% of all food found around that world. Plants turn sun light into energy and that is what makes our food. Last but not least are plants that help us have places to live. Without