Innovation and Sustainability

Jerald Brooks

SCI207: Dependence of Man on the Environment

Professor Yavuz Cakir

September, 07, 2011

Within history people have found ways to produce goods, and consume the material resources. As the human race grows; the need for material resources increases. The natural resourced that are on high demand are those of; food, water, and land. As this happens it gives us the challenge of finding new ways of meeting such demands. To meet these demands we are continuously producing more consumer goods and consuming more material including natural resources.

The worldwide growth of human population requires innovative ways of producing consumer goods. These goods come largely from meat and crops. With the increase in human population comes the requirement of more food and other resources. There becomes a problem within our resources, “For most of the past decade, the world has been consuming more food than it has been producing” (Turk, and Bensel, 2011).

Within developing countries they produce much of the grains that we import into the U.S. With the consumer good demands such grains are being used for livestock, which raises the prices of imported goods from local stores. The more the price rises within stores, the wealthier our importers get. Due to these demands of grain production the countries who supply them end up not being able to produce enough grain for livestock.

In some areas grains are grown for a specific use for production of bio fuels for cars. “Increasing demand for food, feed, and bio fuels has been a major driver for deforestation in the tropics” (Turk, and Bensel, 2011). The demands for such items increase within six months to the year. The more it increases the more suffering the livestock deals with. Although it’s extremely important to feed every living creature especially