Hello Tunza Readers!

For this report I?ll be talking about resource depletion! Resource depletion is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished. The occurrence of resource depletion is found most frequently in farming, fishing, mining, water usage, and consumption of fossil fuels.

In Canada, the issue of resource depletion isn?t as prevalent due to its abundance in resources, but with all these resources it?s important to take care of them. Sadly, this is not the case as Canada ranks the fourth highest in ecological footprint per person, only after Luxembourg, Australia and the United States. Other statistics show that if everyone lived on Earth as Canadians do, we would need 4.7 Earths to sustain the consumption rates. We only have one Earth.

Overall, as the human population is ever increasing it leads to more sewage fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides fossil fuels being extracted and burned land deforested and developed minerals mined and waste and toxic byproducts of manufacturing being created. Especially for first world countries, the consumerist society that has been constructed needs to be changed if we want to take real action against further resource depletion.

As a society, we need to adapt to using renewable sources of energy, ensure our practices are sustainable (ie. farming and fishing)  and that we are reducing our consumption to reduce the waste we produce.