People demand fossil fuel to power the day to day activities, they clear forest to do agriculture and create industries that pollute the environment. ... Fossil Fuel There is the increase in demand for diesel and petrol transportation. This has led to the need for huge quantities of fossil fuel. ... Taking to account the non-renewability of fossil fuel, the surge in the population may cause depletion shortly (Orenstein, 2004). ... Over the years, burning fossil fuels has increased the IV carbon oxide in the atmosphere. ...

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Power generated from natural gas plants involves lower capital and fuel costs than other methods of electricity. ... Although this comparison represents a disadvantage for natural gas, its very low capital costs offset the moderate fuel costs. ... However, among all other non-renewable and plant-driven sources of energy production, including nuclear and fossil fuels, natural gas causes the least harmful environmental consequences. ... While renewable sources of energy are considered more environmentally-friendly than gas and other fossil fuels, these newer sources are expensive and difficult t...

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These forests provide habitat for an estimated half of the world's plant and animal species, provide water and fuel for much of the world's population, and influence regional and global climate. Commercial logging, clearance for agriculture, ranching, and fuel gathering are all responsible for the destruction. ... Solutions include the development of alternative fuel wood supplies through fuel wood plantations, the regulation of logging, and a consensus as to the value of forest conservation over commercial development. ... The primary conservation concern here is with fossil fuel...

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To understand the magnitude of the pressures of resources and ecosystems it is useful to turn to the conceptual equation that is widely attributed to Paul R. Ehrlich (1968). Ehrlich was an American biologist and educator in the year 1968. The equation relates impact (I), to population (P), affluence...

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The "paradox of plenty," also referred to as the "resource curse", is meant to represent the notion that states with an abundance in natural resources, such as crude oil, tend to be accompanied by rising levels of poverty. Countries that are more dependent on natural resource wealth, like Nigeria, S...

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Nonrenewable resources, such as fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) and mineral deposits (iron, gold, and aluminum) are those in limited amounts that can only be replenished over extremely long periods of time. ...

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Unfortunately, both CO2 and N results from human activities such as the combustion of fossil fuels in vehicles, power plants, industries Together they alter climates to extremes, contribute to the formation of acid rain, attributes to soil infertility, as well as producing low level photochemical smog; affecting the Earth's ecosystems respectively. ...

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Introduction Environmental geography lies between environment and society, in other words environmental geography is a combination between human and the environment. Environmentalism is defined as ˜the ways in which the relationships between people and their surroundings are understood and acted ...

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With the advancement of technology, humans have exploited the natural world in terms of reclamation of land from the sea for infrastructural development, deforestation of the "earths green lungs", and alteration of landscape for mining and increased consumption of fossil fuels. ...

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With the advancement of technology, humans have exploited the natural world in terms of reclamation of land from the sea for infrastructural development, deforestation of the "earths green lungs", and alteration of landscape for mining and increased consumption of fossil fuels. ...

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