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NAME: Charis Joyce B. Tinampay SCORE:

YEAR & SECTION: 3rd Year- Section A
SUBJECT: GE Environmental Science
SCHEDULE: TTH 9:00AM- 10:30AM

ACTIVITY NO. 2
Environmental Issues and their Sustainability
Questions:
a. Stabilizing population is not desirable because without more consumers, economic growth
would stop.

In these present times, most countries have suffered the issue of overpopulation, and it is
undeniably unresolved. The unstable population is a crucial contributor to economic instability.
With that, there might still be other solutions we can figure out in terms of stabilizing the
population without affecting economic growth. Is economic expansion much more important
right now? Will economic growth rely only on population growth?

Increased growth in population makes it more challenging for impoverished countries to end
poverty, end hunger, and provide universal access to health care, education, and other essential
services. We already have tons of consumers worldwide, which I believe is enough to maintain
economic growth. However, we must focus on giving people a stable life rather than a more
anchored economy. However, once the problem is solved, we can regulate the things with which
they are associated. With that, we can keep growing and have a stable population without
destabilizing the economy.
Furthermore, let us not be complacent that we live on this planet for free. Given the abundance
of these natural resources, we owe it to ourselves to preserve them. We must find a method to
improve things rather than make them worse while we still have time. Many people are
increasingly making efforts to help environmental advocates whose mission is to protect our
planet. Be part of them now.

b. The world will never run out of resources because we can use technology to find substitutes
and to help you reduce resource waste.

I disagree with the statement. Living things on earth are dependent on certain resources. Some
are renewable, while most are not. These resources give us stuff to build a home as well as food
that is high in energy. There is a limit to how much crude oil we can access, oxygen from trees,
coal etc.

Technology has its limit, and all resources originate from nature. There is a natural balance that
exists among living organisms on earth. We are all dependent on the sun as energy source, sun
in renewable resource but it cannot be replicated through technology. Living organisms also
cannot be substituted by the use of technology. The destruction on technology is too developed
and the crazy people grow wildly.
 Republic of the Philippines
STO. NIÑO MACTAN COLLEGE
Goldmine Residences Soong 1 Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines

Telephone No.: (+63961 629 9778)

Email: santoninomactancollege2021@gmail.com
Website: https://www.schoolandcollegelistings.com/PH/Lapu-Lapu-City

No human technology can truly replace "nature's technology", over a hundred of millions of
years in delivering services to sustain life on earth. A productive, diverse natural world and a
stable climate have been the basic assets at the foundation of the success of our civilizations,
and will continue to be in future. A fundamental issue in the previous technological revolutions
has been the lightness with which we have taken for granted the natural environment rather
than valuing it as a condition necessary to development. And if we continue to produce,
consume and power our lives the way we do right now, forest, oceans and weather systems will
be overwhelmed and collapse. So we must use our resources responsibly and only use what we
need, this in one way to ensure that resources will not run out.