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State Soveriegnty and Environmental Sustainability

Environmental SustainabilityWith humanities growing knowledge of skills and technology, we have been able tomanipulate nature to meet the growing needs of humans. By doing this humans havefished, gathered species, hunted for food, fuel, and shelter. Humans have domesticatedplants and animals, cut forests, used anything from fire to technological advancements toalter habitats, and have significantly changes chemical hydrological and geochemicalcycles. As a result humans do not reflect what life on earth is, but changes to landscapeand sea reflect human culture. As species die, humans lose their food, medicines andindustrial resources and products that supply today for tomorrow. For humans to thinkthat they can be the last species standing and still survive is being ignorant of the facts . This problem is of global concern and must be resolved with the cooperation of states,NGOs and the scientific community. Counties must realize that their sovereignty comessecond to the sustainable survival of not only the human race, but all of earthsencompassing life. In the early 1400s, human population began to grow substantially. The increasein population added stress to earths resources and ecosystem which consistently increasedas humans developed new technologies. This period of technological enlightenment beganin the mid to late 1700s with the industrial revolution, which was also the time whenhumans moved out of self sustained villages and farms into complex interdependent cities.Intensive industrialism started with the invention of the steam engine and ignited a massconsumption of earths resources with developed countries consuming a majority of resources and developing countries trying to catch up to the first worlds technologicalability and economic strength. As third world countries try to compete with their flourishing neighbors, earthsnatural resources have been stressed to an unsustainable level which poses two mainproblems....

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