Exploitations of natural resources?
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Expliotation by wealthy to plunder the resources of poorer nations.example what is happening today in the amazon.The greed of the oil barons.Worst of all the enslavement of the worlds poor for the benefit of the worlds richest conglomerates
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Here's a better answer than the one provided above, and a site that will provide the answer(s) you are looking for.\n\nHumans are using up natural resources at a great rate and at a great cost to the health of the natural environment and life on Earth.\n\nIt is not the natural resources by themselves that harm the Earth's environment -  it is what humans do with the natural resources that cause the problems to the environment and to the health of living things, including other human beings.\n\nThe burning of fossil fuels in factories to make products and power, and the fuels used by trucks, automobiles and jet planes have caused acid rain and a great increase in carbon dioxide and pollution in the atmosphere.   And forests have been destroyed which used to absorb carbon dioxide.  Carbon dioxide traps heat in our lower atmosphere.\n\nScientists believe that human activities such as these have led to global warming.
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Ok, maybe I would be a better person to ask this question since I actually work in the industry finding the stuff. Seems to me some people have made up they're own minds without much knowledge of the industry.\n\nAs one guy has pointed out, yes as it takes millions of years to from and the amount we have used thus far is greater than that being made naturally. \n\nHowever, what people fail to realise is that its the larger discoveries which for the past decade has been in decine due to the price of oil. As such, oil companies were reluctant to spend money in exploration because of the decreased profit they would make. Since Bush decided to invade Iraq, the oil price shot up and now exploration is booming. More discoveries are being made, and production is up.\n\nAlso as you have mentioned there are places which have yet to be discovered. I recently was working for a company which did an exploration well which they had been planning for 20 years! Long time planning if you ask me, but the reason it took so long was because the techonolgy avaliable was not around at the time to explore it. We can only explore within the capabilities of current techonolgy. Not only that there are vast areas of the world that have yet to even be siesmically survey'ed, for example the Pacific Ocean, big huge expanse of water, how long do you think it would take to map the sub surface geology?\n\nAs for your third part of your question, there is such a thing as extended reach drilling, where (as the name suggests) they drill long sections and could quite easily tap potential reservoirs without damaging sensitive environments. Such drilling goes on in the UK.\n\nAll in all no the oil is not running out, these next few years are going to see and peak in the production of oil since hte industry started.\n\nP.S. Removing the oil from the ground doesnt in any way shape or form cause volcanoes as the guy above me suggested, that is mearly ill' education!
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The quantity and quality of a resource is determined by whether it is a renewable, non-renewable, or a flow resource. \n\nRenewable resources, such as plants and animals, can replenish themselves after they have been used if their physical environment has not been destroyed. If trees are harvested carefully, a new forest will grow to replace the one that was cut. If animals eat grass in a pasture to a certain level, grass will grow again and provide food for animals in the future, as long as the carrying capacity of the land is not exceeded by the pressure of too many animals. \n\nNonrenewable resources, such as minerals and fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), can be extracted and used only once. \n\nFlow resources, such as water, wind, and sunlight, are neither renewable nor nonrenewable because they must be used as, when, and where they occur. The energy in a river can be used to generate electricity, which can be transmitted over great distances. However, that energy must be captured by turbines as the water flows past or it will be lost.
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Poaching.\nHabitat loss and fragmentation, encroaching human populations.
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Do you mean finite natural resources? If so, those are resourses found on earth, (oil)that are of limited supply. In other words we only have so much, and when it it gone, it is gone forever.
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Well enviromentalist pretty much keep anyone from doing that in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR) .. I've heard there is probably as much oil in ANWAR as there is in the Middle East .. so go figure.
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Hey! Can I do your homework for you?? Cause you could have searched it on your own...\n\nNatural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. A commodity is generally considered a natural resource when the primary activities associated with it are extraction and purification, as opposed to creation. Thus, mining, petroleum extraction, fishing, and forestry are generally considered natural-resource industries, while agriculture is not. The term was introduced to a broad audience by E.F. Schumacher in his 1970s book Small Is Beautiful.\n\nNatural resources are often classified into renewable and non-renewable resources. Renewable resources are generally living resources (fish, coffee, and forests, for example), which can restock (renew) themselves at approximately the rate at which they are extracted, if they are not overharvested. Non-living renewable natural resources include soil, as well as water, wind, tides and solar radiation — compare with renewable energy.\n\nMineral resources are generally non-renewable and, once a site's non-renewable resource is exhausted, it is considered to be useless for future extraction, barring technological improvements that allow economic extraction from the tailings. Technological improvements may also allow future extraction of metals at lower concentrations than at previous times, which converts low-grade resources into ore, and may re-open or expand mines.\n\nBoth extraction of the basic resource and refining it into a purer, directly usable form, (e.g., metals, refined oils) are generally considered natural-resource activities, even though the latter may not necessarily occur near the former.\nRainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands\nEnlarge\nRainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands\n\nNatural resources are natural capital converted to commodity inputs to infrastructural capital processes. They include soil, timber, oil, minerals, and other goods taken more or less as they are from the Earth.\n\nA nation's natural resources often determine its wealth and status in the world economic system, by determining its political nfluence. Developed nations are those which are less dependent on natural resources for wealth, due to their greater reliance on infrastructural capital for production. However, some see a resource curse whereby easily obtainable natural resources could actually the prospects of a national economy by fostering political corruption.\n\nIn recent years, the depletion of natural capital and attempts to move to sustainable development have been a major focus of development agencies. This is of particular concern in rainforest regions, which hold most of the Earth's natural biodiversity - irreplaceable genetic natural capital. Conservation of natural resources is the major focus of Natural Capitalism, environmentalism, the ecology movement, and Green Parties. Some view this depletion as a major source of social unrest and conflicts in developing nations.
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I would reservedly agree with you. I think it is human nature to want control and exploit...governments have the money and power to do so and they always want more of both.
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photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/Index.asp\nwww.iucn.org\nwww.hoovers.com/nrcs/--ID__150474--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml\n\n\nABOVE ALL U R A NATURAL RESOURCE....CONSERVE URSELF.....take care bye bye...
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Definitely, we are running out of natural resources. We should do our bit to save wat we have... Every tiny drop makes an ocean...
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Department Of Natural Resources
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It's a non-renewable natural resource and it takes forever to be made (as in millions of years). So what we have now is pretty much all we have. If it were cheap then we would have probably run out of it already and then we'd all be screwed.
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Traditionally, timber has been at the top of the list. But there is a also a large fishing industry, huge agricultural industry and the absolute beauty of the state is argueably the biggest natural resource we have.
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Natural Resouces are the physical things (minerals, water, forests, etc) that an area or country contains. hey dont affect the country...
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ways of consumer exploitation eg:under weight,hoarding etc.
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Natural resources:   \ncobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber\n\nLook for stuff like this here:\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cg.html