Definition Of Exhaustible Natural Resources
The amount of those resources which is limited in nature are called “exhaustible natural resources”.
More About Exhaustible Natural Resources
- They can be exhausted by human activities
- Resources of which a finite quantity is in existence
- Oil and gas are exhaustible and be all sucked up and burnt up
- A natural resource that cannot be increased by the natural forces of the environment is called exhaustible natural resources
- The quantities of exhaustible resources are effectively fixed and thus the more used today, the less is available for use in the future
- It is possible, and even expected, that exhaustible resources will be exhausted at some time in the future
- Common examples of exhaustible resources are the three fossil fuels -- petroleum, coal, and natural gas
- Humans today extract and use around 50% more natural resources than only 30 years ago, for a current total of about 60 billion tons of raw materials a year
- People in rich countries consume up to 10 times more natural resources than people in poor countries
- Non-renewable resources form extremely slowly or do not naturally form in the environment
- A good example of non-renewable resources is fossil fuels, which are included in this category because their rate of formation is extremely slow
- Some resources are naturally depleted without human intervention, the most notable of these being radioactive elements, such as uranium, which naturally decays into heavy metals
- Of the non-renewable resources, metallic minerals can be reused by recycling, but coal and petroleum cannot be recycled
- Anything that we find under the ground: coal, oil, natural gas, uranium, iron ore, copper, nickel are exhaustible natural resources
- Every resource is exhaustible, except solar power, wind power, tidal and wave power, and thermal power
- The global extraction and consumption of natural resources will continue to increase dramatically unless measures are implemented to reduce the overall amounts of resource use
- Minerals are exhaustible natural resources
- The large-scale exploitation of minerals began in the Industrial Revolution around 1760 in England and has grown rapidly since then
- This increase will mainly be driven by increasing consumption in the developing countries
- In order to achieve substantial changes in our resource use, we do need to make changes in our current lifestyles, such as
- Sticking to vegetarian diet and reducing the consumption of non vegetarian food
- Traveling by public transport or bicycle
- Avoiding travel by private transport such as private car and airplane
