Resource consumption
Resource consumption is about the consumption of non-renewable, or less often, renewable resources. Specifically, it may refer to:
- water consumption
- energy consumption
- electric energy consumption
- world energy consumption
- natural gas consumption/gas depletion
- oil consumption/oil depletion
- logging/deforestation
- fishing/overfishing
- land use/land loss or
- resource depletion and
- general exploitation and associated environmental degradation
Measures of resource consumption are
overconsumption of resources. The resource consumption rate of a nation does not usually correspond with the primary resource availability, this is called resource curse
.
human population may lead to resource depletion and a shrinking of the earth's carrying capacity.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Fred Magdoff (2013). "Global Resource Depletion - Is Population the Problem?". Monthly Review.