The Importance Of Natural Resources

From the earliest civilizations natural resources have shaped the course of Humanity. Some resources have allowed us to rise up, invent new machines, and build mighty empires. While others have taken hundreds of lives and forced humanity to take a step back on the path of progression.

i. Natural Resources – resources produced with out the help of man (naturally) to be used for the production of goods and services.

Since the dawn of mankind, clusters of innovations throughout history have allowed for societal progression at an explosive rate. While primarily fostering a centrifugal system of advancements; humans’ interests in expansion is spiraling out of control. Throughout history elements of collapse can be traced through civilizations and natural resources. Wright’s argument posits humans have hyperextended their utilization of resources at a rate that cannot be replenished, therein by setting up the world for the largest ecological collapse in history (Wright, 2004, pg. 130-131). Due to the cyclical process of past collapse and reformation humans have an advantage to rectify our current consumption rates ultimately avoiding a fate similar to past societies (Wright, 2004, pg. 131). As such Wright’s argument should frame larger discussions of responsible citizenship.

Sovereignty is very important to American Indian tribes, and they take many steps to preserve it. In this paper I will talk about how American Indian tribes peruse protecting natural resources as a strategy to strengthen their sovereignty.

Natural rights is the idea that each individual is born with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is concluded from the Declaration of Independence that these are basic human rights that no one should be denied of. Though, the concept of these rights, and what is meant by them is open to interpretation. Some may say that the idea of liberty should be the focus of government. It is also said that the right to liberty, is the right to own property and to achieve one’s own goals. Everyone should be granted these basic rights at birth as civilians, and as

In “Where Have All the Exploiters Gone? Co-Management of the Maine Lobster Industry”, author James M. Acheson validates Garret Hardin’s logic in “Tragedy of the Commons” that property rights do in fact help conserve resources. Acheson also refutes basic principles set forth by Hardin that users of open access resources have no vested interest in preserving resources over the long term and are unable to generate regulating mechanisms.

It is true that some of these resources produce a valuable use such as energy, in the case of petroleum, but we have exploited it too much. We use more than we are supposed until one of these days we ran out of it. We should just live with what we can and what we already have. Also I believe that some other natural resources should remain untouched by the human hands. We need to find a way to protect our environment since this our planet, our only home. We also need to change our characters. Good people still exists in the world nowadays, but the problem is that we care too much about ourselves. We want everything for ourselves. If necessary, we need to go back to the age of the gold race. Where people used to live in peace, used to respect and care for each other, where there was no

Natural resources can be found all over America from dirt to diamond all the resources found help build our nation. “The great California gold rush began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River.”(California

Thus, Belgium strongly believes that a country should have the sole and supreme authority over its natural resources so as to advance its own

act in such a way so that to exploit the natural resources to the point of

This paper uses the terms natural resource(s), resource(s), and reserve(s) in many different contexts. Please use care when interpreting their usage and context.

Environmentalists’ Albert Schweitzer and Paul Taylor have two different positions on what should have rights and what shouldn’t. But as much as their positions are different, they share some similarities as well. In this essay I will compare and contrast their positions, ultimately coming to a conclusion if they are on the same page when it comes to what deserves to have rights. Lets begin by taking at look at what the basis for each position is.

Since the evolution of man, it is evident that humans have only seen the land for its material value. People have consistently taken advantage of the Earth’s limited resources driven by greed and self interest. This can be seen in old pieces of writing like, “Undaunted Courage” and “The Indian Removal”, to more recent pieces like, “Is Gentrification a Human Rights Violation?”. To this day, man continues to take advantage of and exploit the land for their own economic benefits.

I believe that natural resources should be administered by non-civic groups and privately owned organizations. Ellinor Ostrom and Oliver Wiliamson, American economists awarded with Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, strongly support and are advocates of this belief. According to them, these non-civic groups are more than capable to handle the natural resources than the authorities (Foldvary, 2009). This is due to the premise that the authorities knew about the problem but are ignorant of the knowledge, skills and information needed to address the problem.

When we looking at the lipstick, the primary ingredients we are going to found are wax, oil, pigment, dyes, alcohol, fragrance, preservatives, and antioxidants.