There is no longer enough natural resources
There is no longer enough natural resources to sustain current levels of economic growth. To what extend do you agree or disagree with this stament.
Some scientists deem fundamental to respect the maximum burden that the environment can bear. That is to say, the highest amount of population in an area without deteriorating it. Those people see our planet as a spaceship. Mankind has been given a limited amount of petroleum, food, coal, gold, water, etc.
The number of human beings and it rate of consumption determine a which rate this living warehouse depletes.
With the above view in mind, sending humanitarian aid to third world countries is counter-intuitive and from an economic standpoint would be appallingly inefficient. Thus, It with increase the rate at which natural resources are used up.
Nowadays earth sustains around seven billion people. This deed would have been unattainable by using Paleolithic strategies and tools. An outrageous mistake is made when we ignore that humans can create new technologic resources.
In other words, as technology evolves new ways of manipulating our surroundings arise increasing the maximum burden. For an instance, since the last century, we generate reliable electricity with nuclear power plants. Moreover, we can now grow food and feed cattle in a much more efficient way than our ancestors did. This important factor is often ruled out of the equation.
I strongly believe that the earth is not going to hell in a handbasket. The brink of the cliff is further away in spite of the vertiginous population growth and consumption.
To sum up, There are plenty natural resources to nurse todays levels of economic growth, if we know how to manage and exploit them properly.