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The Earth’s Payback
Our civilization is run through the expenditure of energy. Since energy cannot be created out of nothing, it must be taken from something that already is existing. We often make 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 size of the Earth is not infinite, though, it’s clear that all the oil and zeolites we have will sure enough run out, and at that point we’ll be in real trouble as to the things we should do.
Consider for a second just how much of our day to day activities require the utilization of power and the extraction of resources around the globe. Not only do the precious metals we extract from the planet power our economy to a great extent, but oil is needed for virtually all things we do, silicon is needed for our computers, plastic and tires are created from oil, and obviously trees are required to be cut down for wood and paper.
The price this has on our environment could not be overstated. While it may be argued that trees are renewable resources, the notion that a three hundred year old tree can be cut down and substituted with a small tree, and that this is an adequate replacement, is obviously ludicrous. The amount of harm that forest excavation creates to wildlife and the delicate ecology humans rely on cannot be wholly grasped.
For lovers of the environment, however, the news is not entirely bad. Unfortunately, the restoring of the balance of nature may come at the cost of many millions of people. As global warming grows increasingly into a visible reality, we’re starting to see that the toll human society has taken on the Earth may be irreversible. Increasing amounts of natural disasters have been the result of our destructiveness, and as our mode of living does not appear to have changed at all over the past fifty years but only gotten worse, it seems that the reaction this will create from our natural habitat 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 become extinct, human beings would not be able to live for very long. It seems that we’ve forgotten our own position in nature, and become tricked by television and the false image of the world it shows us. Perhaps with the destruction of some of our civilization, and the total loss of fuel to run it with, we’ll be required to recognize our part in a wider ecology. The idea that human civilization can go forever with non-renewable resources is obviously ludicrous. Unless we begin to make real moves to fundamentally shift the ways we lead our existence, the damage we cause to ourselves and the Earth could be irreversible.
Connor Sullivan has researched the mineral zeolite that might be the answer to almost all the medical problems of today. Connor and his wife have been taking the mineral zeolites in order to improve their overall health.