Anthony Cooper Blog post 2

We as humans consume so much resources that it has gotten out of hand. The UN Environment Program, says rising consumption driven by a growing middle class has seen resources extraction increase from 22 billion tons in 1970 to 70 billon tons in 2010. This really refers to natural materials like fossil fuels. If we keep staying on this path we will ultimate use all of our resources up and cause serious shortages of critical materials and risking conflict.