The nature long since supplied mankind with everything that is necessary for life. Gradually the person began to master actively natural wealth, adapting the world around for the requirements. Most the value of natural resources increased in the last two centuries. With the advent of new technologies the people began to use the nature for economic and production needs more and more widely.
Instruction
1. As a result of economic activity of the person the image of the planet significantly changed. The civilization actively steps on the nature, winning new spaces and changing Earth ecology. Where earlier the woods rustled, up skyscrapers and industrial buildings rise now. On different continents in a set there were channels, natural waterways block majestic hydraulic engineering constructions now. The mankind still actively uses the most important resource of the planet – its extensive territories.
2. Agricultural grounds represent a natural natural resource. The person widely uses the earth under an arable land, gardens, fields and vineyards. Agro-industrial activity is the planet conducting in those regions which differ in mild climate. Quite often expansion of grounds is carried out due to deforestation and drainage of swamps. Economic activity of the person on the earth influences ecology of the whole regions, changes a landscape, often impoverishes flora and fauna.
3. In civilization life forest resources are still of great importance. Wood is widely used in industrial and civil engineering, from it produce paper, furniture, other consumer goods. The problem of rational use of this valuable resource for which resumption decades are required is particularly acute for mankind.
4. The earth is rich with water resources. But, unfortunately, not all of them are suitable for direct use. On the planet there is a number of regions which have deficiency of pure fresh water already now. One of water supply problem solutions – use of technologies of desalting of sea water. Water resources are widely used also in the technical purposes. The rough rivers give to mankind the electric power. Water is necessary for production of many modern materials.
5. Minerals – a raw materials source for various types of the industry. People since ancient times use in life and on production coal, ores of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. With the advent of internal combustion engines demand for oil and oil products sharply increased. The modern economy cannot be imagined also without natural gas: it is used as fuel and initial raw materials for chemical industry.
6. Every year reserves of hydrocarbons thaw therefore the mankind looks narrowly more and more fixedly at alternative energy sources which are offered by the nature. Use of gratuitous solar energy, geothermal sources, wind power and ocean waves is especially perspective in this regard. In general various resources of the planet are really inexhaustible, but meanwhile not all from them can be used by the person at this stage of technological development of a civilization.