prophecy

             Humans have grown to be the most dominant species on the planet. We have been able to evolve and adapt to our surroundings, but most importantly we have been able to construct our own environments such as cities. We have learned to manipulate our environment to serve us in the most efficient ways possible, using technologies that continue to advance and become more sophisticated as well as effective. These technologies are made from the earth’s various resources. Resources like wood, metals, oil, and animals are a few main resources that have enabled humans to construct the world we live in today. The issue humans have had is overusing these resources, and a lot of times, we end up running out of them. For example, when Americans began settling west throughout the 1800s, they hunted bison. Bison had a booming population of over thirty million at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but towards the end of it there were less than four hundred bison left in North America. There is no issue with hunting bison, because it is just the circle of life, but the settlers hunted them in excess and also for sport. Essentially, the world humans have created is a world where people take more than they need and it throws off the natural balance of the ecosystem.

            Humans may be able to manipulate our environment the way we please, but the simple fact is that there are a limited amount of resources that the earth provides. And people have been setting a trend of using up all the resources in one place and moving on, such as the bison in North America, or Haiti being over ninety percent deforested making it vulnerable to storms and unable to farm. Farming is another example, because most crops use up a lot of top soil, which takes a long time for the earth to make. This trend of using vast resources and being wasteful is multiplied by the fact that there are too many people on the planet. The earth could more easily handle the wasteful lifestyle that a lot of the population has taken part in if there were more like a billion humans on the planet. But since there are about seven billion people on the planet, the majority of the world population is hungry and impoverished, while the rest of the population have more than they need and are practically throwing away resources. If humans continue this lifestyle, then the earth will run out of resources, and there will have to be drastic changes of people being conservative if they are going to survive. If this trend continues, many people will not be able to survive and the earth will be damaged and at the very least, take a long time to recover.