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A the urgent need to develop more climate-friendly energy technologies is becoming keenly appreciated worldwide. Renewable energy technologies are receiving heightened attention, and modern biomass-based energy -- the use of wood, crop residues and dung as fuel -- is increasingly seen as an important component of the transition to a low-carbon energy future.... Shortages of wood for cooking meant that women and children had to spend many hours in search of fuels. The growing populations in developing countries were harvesting trees for use as cooking fuels at unsustainable rates -- threatening, according to Eckholm, significant deforestation problems. (Barnes & Floor, 1999, p. 237) (Barnes & Floor, 1999, p. 237)
One must also understand that the decay of biological materials is also the long-term source of the fossil fuels that we are depleted at record high levels, as a result of population growth and density. The fuel crisis, on all its levels is a crisis that has been created almost directly by population growth.
Conclusion:
Though it may be true that the values of the ideology of conservation have had a reversal, as people are just beginning to realize the unknowns of the massive impact of population growth on the fragile ecosystems of the earth the fact that many of these issues are unknowns and therefore...
Just as the individual can have a greater or lesser understanding of the impact of population growth on the earth, he or she can also have a greater or lesser understanding of the long-term impacts of the land, water and fuel usage of the individual and in mass the whole of the human population, and yet it should be clear to most that we are utilizing these three resources at unsustainable levels, as a result of population growth and human disconnect from the earth.
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