Impacts on the Way We Use Natural Resources

• If we burn less coal it will help keep our natural resources alive. 
• By burning too much coal it has caused the air and water to be polluted and it has brought green house gases into the air. 
• While coal burning causes global warming and global warming causes an increase in the spread of diseases.  As the northern countries get warmer these countries have insects that are carrying viruses among them. 
• Strong shifts in precipitation patterns have been and will continue to be caused by global warming. Some areas of the world will become wetter while others, and others will become drier.
• Global warming has caused an increase in the chance of life threatening storms. 
• If weather related disasters occur it causes a large impact on the economy and it may cause new or more diseases that are expensive to treat. Hurricane Katrina is an example that continues to impact the economy and its people. 
• Global warming changes deforestation. We are losing millions of acres of rain forests a year and precious wild life habitats.As global warming progresses our natural resources will be further depleted. 
• Natural resource depletion could cause changes in wild life, human population risks, disease, floods, drouts, unsustainable land, sea level changes and economic disaster. 
• Industry progression also risks depletion of our natural environment. We will need to strike a balance between technology and protecting our environment.