"Collapse"

So recently in my history class, we read an excerpt from a book called "Collapse" written by Jared Diamond. In class, we talked about what kind of issue we would like to focus on that Diamond mentions in his book. I chose to write about protecting wildlife and conserving it. I feel like this is an extremely crucial point to talk about, and although it may be trite, I am going to talk about it more. The Earth has limited resources and every day we are taking more and more of it away. People wonder why we are running out of things and running out of land... the answer is simple, we are using it and abusing it. Also, something we talked about in class but I didn't actually get to speak about is the use of solar panels. Although a great technology, we really have to think about also , the materials that are used to make those. How much fossil fuel and raw materials are we using to make those? Are we doing more damage by making the panels than we are by using them to save electricity? We are trying to find so many alternate ways of saving energy or converting it, that we may actually be hurting the environment more by doing this. I have so many opinions about a lot of this that it would be hard to express it all in one blog, but truthfully, I feel that we only have one Earth, we need to respect it.