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The issue of resource depletion is growing all the time and our future depends on finding solutions to this problem. Natural resources are part of what makes up a country's wealth. Without the resources that a country needs it will not have a good economy. If there are no more oil reserves found in the world and we kept our increasing rate of two percent oil consumption, the oil reserves will be used up in the world in about forty to fifty years. If this is true then we need to look for newer sources of transportation, other than cars, buses, and motor boats because they all require oil. Three of the main renewable resources are water, food, and forests. We destroy hundreds of acres of trees each year and plant seeds thinking that they will grow back in no time, but it takes hundreds of years for those trees to grow back. Europe holds about eighty nine percent of the world's renewable water resources, but it uses fifteen percent a year. Food is only renewable up to a point. If the demand for fish grows faster than the supply of fish itself then will run out of fish, same with many different animals that we eat. There are many things that our world needs to work on in order to have a good future. If we are not able to finid different resources that we can use then our future will be in big trouble. The world needs to stop wasting the resources that we are given and that we supply and find out ways to conserve them for our future children.
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