Question

What would happen if natural resources disappear?(100 words)

Answer 1

Hmmm. I think resources disappearing is a cyclical nature of our planet.

Just to step back a little - earth has primarily two type of cycles - glacial periods and interglacial periods. The first ones are glaciers cover much of the 1/3 land area and interglacial periods are those which are warmer.

Depending upon the stream of observation - anthropology, history, humanities - the various ages are named  paleolithic/neolithic etc. ice age/etc. civilisation driven, geography driven etc. etc.

However one thing is in common - either man moves on to the next age by being resourceful or gets extinct. But each age, or civilisation or even movements of masses, or life in general for a human being is all about search for resources till he uses those resources are gone.

Then emerge two scenarios - either human race finds solutions to survive without those resources or it gets extinct because it was not able to adapt to the lack or disappearing of those resources.

Eg. Fuel. And very simplistically explained below:

When prehistoric man lived, he travelled on foot, till he discovered the resources of wood and stone (raw material and tools), he used them to produce the wheel (in the right age - over decades and centuries etc.), then he used to create fire. And use that fire (amongst other things) as fuel.

Over centuries, we discovered oil as another fuel resource - dependency on wood became that much lower.

Over centuries - as we move towards repleting oil resources, and wood resources - hybrid cars running on water or electricity are being produced to meet the repleting demands.

Lets assume centuries (or decades now) later we run out of wood, oil, electricity (produced through water and hence a resource) and water. Man will have two choices.

Either to create a lifestyle where we adapt to use alternatives (CO2 emitted by living creatures? air? who knows?)

or life around no fuel (no travel? change world order to reduce order through online virtual world?)

So on and so forth for each resource - till we have the final two choices:

perish if it is one of the essential resources for survival

or find a new planet to live on and be the consumers that we are!

:-)

Answer 2

If all the natural resources on earth get disappear, life on earth will cease to survive. The natural resources include those resources that are granted by nature such as water, minerals, forests and trees etc. These resources play a crucial role in human survival and growth. Moreover, the availability of natural resources is also important for the growth of an economy. Therefore, if natural resources disappear, no one will be able to survive. If we take an example of water; essential for the survival of human beings and is naturally available. There is no way to generate or produce water. Therefore, if water reservoirs become arid then along with humans almost all the living beings including animals, birds would not be able to survive. Moreover, not a single industry in an economy would be able to operate in the lack of a proper supply of water.