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'Human wants are unlimited and keep changing'. How do you think this constant desire for more creates pressure on the environment? Can the fulfilment of wants and the extraction of resources be balanced?
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- Suppose we already have a white cotton shirt, and we buy one more cotton shirt.
- Farmers then have to grow more cotton, which uses more soil and more water.
- The factory also has to do more work to make the shirt, which uses more electricity.
- So every extra want puts more pressure on the environment.
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A balance is possible in these ways.
- We can reduce our unnecessary wants.
- We can reuse and recycle our resources, like dyeing an old white shirt black and wearing it again.
- We can use more renewable energy like solar power, instead of non-renewable energy like thermal power.
