The scarcity of natural resources
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- Created on: 23-04-16 13:40
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- The scarcity of natural resources
- Renewable resources
- Can be used over and over again
- E.g. wind, solar, water, fertile land producing food, **** seed oil, soft wood and sugar cane
- When human use these resources it cause no problems, but using these to produce electricity is more expensive
- Can be used over and over again
- Finite (non- renewable) resoucres
- These disappear once they are used
- E.g. oil, coal, iron, tin, copper, uranium, natural gas, hard wood
- As these resources become scarcer the prices go up
- Oil's use cause problems as it has many uses e.g. petrol, making plastics, road surfaces etc
- These disappear once they are used
- Possible solutions
- Making electricity: nuclear power, wind power, sea power, solar power
- Powering cars: water, sugar cane, electric batteries
- Recycling
- Chemicals from plants to produce plastic rather than oil
- Using natural products more e.g. cotton, wool, organic foods, ride bikes instead of cars
- Renewable resources
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