Explanation The 20 th century has seen an increase in the human population by about 400 percent. Especially in the developing countries, this population explosion joined with a 4.5-fold growth in the economic activity per person. As a result, resource exploitation of Earth accelerated at an alarming rate. Most of the calculations show that the rate of usage of natural resources since 1955 is greater than the use in all of documented human history until that time. The growing efforts at extraction and utilization of resources have influenced the ocean and atmosphere universally...