Environtmental and Global Health

Posts Tagged ‘natural resources’

Many people feel admiration for nature, respect. They are sensitive to the beauty of wild scenery, plants and animals. In this generosity, compassion, nothing to do with a utility that can be natural, seeing it as something far more important than “natural resources” for using, selling or eating. Of course we need to use natural, but not good considering it only as something used.

The sense that nature is far more than the things that take advantage of, to realize that the existence of human beings share with nature, it is proud to disperse knowledge. This knowledge allows to look silly for saying “first is the man.” We must be good, but we should also respect others.

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The availability of energy from renewable energy sources is higher than conventional energy sources, but its use is restricted. Technological developments, the increase of social demand and lower installation cost and rapid depreciation, which encourages the use of a source of renewable energy sources in recent years.

Similarly, the challenges to sustainable development model and the change towards a sustainable development model implies a new conception of the production, transportation and energy consumption.

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Urban pollution in big cities and towns is one of the most important because it directly affects millions of people have an impact on the health and quality of life.

Environmental problems in urban areas and around this is a phenomenon that comes from the increasing urban growth and resulting environmental degradation. Changes in land use, and the concentration of the use of natural resources, is the cause of environmental problems.

It is for this reason that the urban system imports a large number of resources are transformed into goods and services and partly back into the environment as wastes and emissions.

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In 1994 began the world’s conversion fierce field that brings destruction to millions of farmers and transferred control of power large multinational companies, whose only commitment is to make the land pay the most in the shortest possible time, destroying ecosystems, depleting and polluting natural resources and destroy the entire the village grew with “shock wave”.
From this year the selling price from the producers of staple crops for humans such as corn, wheat and rice have fallen dramatically, although this does not happen with the price we must pay the ultimate consumers of this product.

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Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms, terrestrial, marine and water ecosystems and the ecological complexes they are part: this includes diversity within species, between species and within and between ecosystems.
The diversity of human culture can be considered as part of biodiversity.

Because it has several attributes that can be considered a solution to the problems of survival in a particular environment (nomadic, crop rotation). It also helps people adapt to environmental changes. Cultural diversity is reflected in the diversity of language, religious beliefs, practices of land management, art, music, social structure, the selection of plants in food and all the attributes of the community.

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