Surviving the Human Impact
The overall human impact is vastly underestimated by many. The behavior and impacts of a single individual may be so small, but people do not realize the vast quantities of humans. Every ecosystem has a set carrying capacity. The same is true for the earth and humans. The colonies here can only sustain a set number of demands on the ecosystems before destruction will naturally occur. This destruction can take place with the loss of natural resources that sustain plants and animals, and/or through natural disasters such as fires caused by drought (water overconsumption), or other naturally occurring disasters exemplified by human impacts on the earth’s resources. The global populations numbering in the billions are barely sustainable since the vast majority of humans live in poverty in proportions vastly below the American standard of living. Efforts to make necessary changes are definitely attainable however saving humanity as a whole and the standard of living of modernized humans is not possible, especially with the exponentially expanding size of populations. Thus creates the moral dilemma and the ever present philosophy that the fittest survive. The modernized nations are able to utilize education and technology to make life sustainable without compromising living standards. This will not be true for underdeveloped and struggling nations simply because the resources are not plentiful enough to be sustained in higher levels. Nations currently under development including developing markets should be trained in resource responsibility so the majority of populations (those with the current resource advantages) are sustained with the better lifestyle. To make these changes are also possible through government and cultural policy making.
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