Claire+A

MLA sitation:

Cattaneo, Ben. __The Politics of Natural__ Resources__.__ June 2009. 1 February 2011  < []>

__Drilling for __Natural Gas__ in the Marcellus and Utica Shales: ____Environmental Regulatory Basics. __ __Ohio.gov. 1 february 2012. < __ []>

Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia.10 February 2012. 10 February 2012 < [] >

here is the link to project: http://prezi.com/rdsjfw-maiit/copy-of-natural-recourses/

__Problems __ Ancient Rome:


 * 1) 1. Consuming wood and using it in __industry__ and heating was a major cause of deforestation.
 * 2) 2. Wood was used in houses, bathhouses, facilities, and businesses that produced light and heat
 * 3) 3. Wood was popular around mines. They would take the wood around them and use it in the factory. Once the wood around the business was gone, they would import it from other areas.
 * 4) 4. Soil erosion was a major role in problems in Rome. With a large amount of demand for food, farmers were using the land to farm on constantly which led to infertile soil.
 * 5) 5. With so much plowing, the soil let up and the water that was stored in the ground, started to run off and flood.
 * 6) 6. Flooding forced Romans to move ports and harbors which took a toile in the economy because __money__ would needed to do so.
 * 7) 7. Flooding also backed up sewers and destroyed lower positioned buildings.
 * 8) 8. 100 AD to 700 AD there was a lot of droughts
 * 9) 9. Rome depended more on their imports less than their resources

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Today:


 * 1) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">1. Not only are natural resources being destroyed on land, but also in seas and other water ways. Americans use dredging to deepen a water source. But this has side effects, as it destroys reefs and ocean-floor ecosystems.
 * 2) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">2. Scientists invent experiments to make life easier. But when making these designs, natural resources are being used.
 * 3) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">3. Like in Rome, deforestation is a big problem in the USA. Wood is still commonly used in buildings and making paper requires trees too.
 * 4) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">4. Today we are trying to come up with solutions to the problem and yet, steal production and cutting tree numbers have risen.
 * 5) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">5. Grass land is being turned into farmland, and soil is exposed to water which creates erosion.
 * 6) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">6. Our oil today took millions of years to __form__; we use oil so much with __cars__ that once used, cannot be renewed.
 * 7) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">7. We are putting so many gas emitions into the air which exposes us to the suns ultra violet radiations, making the earth hotter. If it gets too hot, plants will not be able to survive.
 * 8) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">8. The price of food has tripled since 2005 because cities are moving to less farming areas so the ground is not abundant to grow crops there.
 * 9) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> Farm numbers are decreasing with all the buildings being built and once the land is unfertile, soon there won’t be any farms left.
 * 10) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> Strip mining is where we strip the land of all its natural resources, once done they will leave it ugly and unusefull. Plants will now not be able to grow there.
 * 11) <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> Dispersants decrease oil in waters but harm animals and coral living there. We use it because it helps get rid of oil so quickly but animals die or are harmed while in the process