The Enviroment

I read an article from the New York Times called " U.N. Warns of Rapid Decay of Environment" by James Kanter. It is about how the environment is changing due to the increasing rate of the human population growth. The world resources are depleting and how the human population is increasing. The fish in the ocean are being captured at two times the rate of their production. The executive director of the U.N. Environmental Program, Achim Steiner, said “The human population is now so large that the amount of resources needed to sustain it exceeds what is available at current consumption patterns.” They are trying to find a way to prevent things and fix things like the hole in the ozone layer.

I believe we need to change the way we use our environment. We take advantage of the environment to much to befit our needs. We are so greedy we are making other species that share the same earth extinct just because we need to use them for food or use their habitat to build our own. The ozone layer is ripping open and when this happens the protection from the sun will be gone. This will put all species on the Earth in to a very dangerous environment that we can not change back. I don't know if this is do to global warming but I know that these are caused by us and us alone. We are so selfish that we are destroying the environment to a place of no return to normalcy. We are going to run out of our resources that gasoline and coal eventually. What are we going to do when we run out of these resources and have no other alternative to keep ourselves running? What are we going to do when the ozone is completely destroyed and the Earth and all the species it holds are doomed to end?