Environmental issues a Introduction to Sustainability, McConnell and Abel
With the population increasing, resulting in the loss of the Earths deserts, species, and eminent of chlorofluorocarbons. Sustainability is the new craze in the science and political world, how can we as a people live in unison without harming the planet we live on? Sustainability can best be describes as leaving something the way we found it, in this case trying to leaving the Earth the way it was before we started destroying it. Countries have been pushing other to follow ESI (Environmental sustainability index) to help countries not exceed their sustainability. Sustainability also touches on other aspects, some of those being agriculture, forest and wood production, and energy. Agriculture is affected by an increase in population resulting in farmers expanding their crops or using genetically modified crops to increase more crop yield to keep up with the population. Forest and wood population are being affected by climate change with the result of deforestation for the use of wood products less tress mean less green house gasses being taken out of the air. Such as the reseeding snow caps on Mount Kilimanjaro. Lastly, one of the biggest aspects of sustainability is energy and how our zealous use of it is over polluting effect ecosystems all throughout the world and the only way is to use more renewable energy sources such as wind energy. Sustainable living can be obtained if every country would be cognizant of what their factories are emitting and how much energy they use and try to minimize that use by adding more renewably energy sources.
