In recent years,
we are always relying on natural resources in our lives to fulfill our needs. Natural
resources appear naturally in environments that exist comparatively with humanity. A
natural resource is usually characterized by numbers of biodiversity and geodiversity
existent in ecosystem. The world’s natural resources are limited, which means that if we
use them frequently, we finally exhaust them. The basic observation is unavoidable.
In another way of looking at this issue are much more relevant to considering
people’s welfare. Our exhaustible and non-renewable natural resources when
measured in terms of their prospective contribution to human welfare, can actually
increase annually, perhaps never coming anywhere near exhaustion ( Blackman,
S., & Baumol, W ). However, each country has their own opinions and
policies on this issue. Although conserving natural resources have detrimental factor such as different point of views , we support this
motion because natural resources bring some benefits such as preserving a
healthy environment, a balanced environment and job opportunities.
However, during this
time, these resources are going to be exhausted and unbalance. This may be caused by uncontrolable
exploitation. For
instance, according to McDermott ( 2007 ), there are horrible deforestations in
ten countries such as Nigeria (36%), Indonesia (26%), Honduras (37%),
Philippines (32%), Benin (31%), Gana (28%), Nepal (25%), North Korea (25%), Equador
(22%), and Haiti (22%). This event will bring more harm if we do not take any
actions to take care of it. This case is not only happening in a country, but in worldwide as well. Therefore, all countries
need to conserve natural resources to avoid extinction.
“The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life”
Theodore Roosevelt.
Of late, we always get
environmental problems such as deforestation, air pollution, global warming,
and so on. Deforestation
causes large amounts of carbon dioxide
to be released into the atmosphere which at a time was carbon neutral because
it was contained within plant life, but now contributes to global warming.
Causing rises in the earth's atmospheric temperature melting the ice caps,
causing a sudden drastic in sea levels. Meanwhile, air pollution creates some infections to humans life such as
asthma, TBC, lung cancer and many more. So that is why we need to keep our
environment clean and healthy. This issue is a global concern because it is so
vital. Beside, the effect
will be spread out globally and influence to all countries in the world. Considering to this
matter, we need to conserve as well as possible due to prevent the
deforestation.
As we know that, natural
resources involve water, land, forest, fossil fuel, and so on which means that
we need to keep the resources in order to keep a balanced ecosystem. Can we imagine
if one of them disappears? The ecosystem
will be unbalance and affected because of it. We have heard from news on
internet, television, or newspaper
that most of people are accustomed to destroy all over the forest in order to
open a new land for making farmland, buildings, resorts, and many more.
This case definitely interrupts the ecosystem because so many problems occur such as
most of animals which are used to live in forest have to be driven out of their
natural habitat and eventually, they will be a threat for human life. Although, by doing
this could keep the ecosystem balance and safe. However, it will require a lot
of funds to conserve the natural resources and this case should be a great
concern to every country as well.
Another benefit that we can
obtain from conserving natural resources is that we could get job opportunities.
It means that this act could give some jobs for those who have basic about this
matter and also, for those are unemployed for such a long time. So, by doing this, the
numbers of unemployment rate will be decreased and indirectly, this way can
enhance the economic system of the country. Jobs which are related to natural
resources tend to focus on employment opportunities leaning towards outdoor
field work and the resources professions. There are so many opportunities for
those who study in biotechnology, environmental engineering, biochemistry, ecology
and land management, natural resources and conservation policy, watershed
management, wildlife conservation parks management and many others.
The conservation of natural
resources is definitely vital, because we need to keep the natural resources
away from complete exhausted. As we know, natural resources are limited and
non-renewable. Can we imagine if natural resources are depleted and none of
energy that we can use forward? If this happens, it will be a big problem to
every country, like getting economic problems. For example, we are so dependant on
fossil fuels. However, fossil
fuels is limited and need a long time to be produced. Meanwhile, our needs
become higher and none of energy can be used as alternative way. In the other words, each and every country
should share same policy of conserving natural resources in order to be made
universal and indirectly, we can save the world.
Taking all this into
consideration, laws should regarding conservation of natural resources be made
universal throughout the world because it is a global matter and it is
absolutely very essential. There are some benefits that we can get from this act.
Firstly, we can keep our environment safe and healthy. Second, we can keep the
ecosystem balance and controlable. Lastly, doing this act, we also can take some job
opportunities which are provided for those who have basic on it and this could
maintain the existence of natural resources continuously. According to Matthews
(1908), President Roosevelt’s plan was to hold all continuing public property
and develop it on a more or less socialistic basic. He planned to direct the
organization of public sentiment, and formulation of laws by all resources, whether
in land or in water, whether national, state, or private, shall be directed in
a way to preserve intact or to increase the principal of them, and to give to
each succeeding generation a larger wealth from the interest. In addition, I
strongly believe that conserving the natural resources should be made universal
in order to save the world entirely.
Reference
Blackman, S., & Baumol,
W. (n.d.). Natural Resources. : The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Retrieved May 28, 2014, from http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/NaturalResources.html
Matthews, J. (1908, May 1). The Conservation of Our Natural Resources. The
Atlantic. Retrieved May 27, 2014, from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1908/05/the-conservation-of-our-natural-resources/305023/
McDermott, M. (2007, August 11). 10 Countries With the Highest
Deforestation Rates in the World. TreeHugger. Retrieved May 27, 2014,
from http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/10-countries-with-the-highest-deforestation-rates-in-the-world.html
written by Akbar Haqi
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