Human Overuse of Resources Calls for Second Earth According to a UK study‚ growth of the population and an increasing consumption of resources could leave humans in need of a second planet as early as 2030. Human demands on natural resources have doubled in less than 50 years‚ according to the Living Planet Report. The rate at which resources are being utilized with the population as is – or growing – will exceed the capacity of the planet in about 30 years. The report also said tropical
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is possible to overuse our ocean resources? It is possible to overuse our ocean resources. We can drill and use an excessive amount of oil from the bottom of the ocean. This resource is made up of dead fish and other creatures that sink to the ocean floor and as sediment builds up the dead animal remains decompose and heat up to form the oil and natural gas. This can take up to thousands of years to form and if humans use too much oil we will have to wait another thousand years to use the oil the ocean
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become the best in their league are now falling short due to overuse injuries. With childhood obesity increasing‚ U.S. citizens have overlooked the overuse injuries that affect the active youth. In 2003 more than 3.5 million children under age 15 suffered a sports injury that required medical treatment‚ thats about one attended injury for every 10 players‚ and seventy-five percent of those injuries were the result of overuse (Hyman‚ 2009). Overuse injuries occur over a long peroid of time and occur after
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this proper information‚ we use the acronym “HOPE” to walk through all the steps. The first thing to do is to ask about their history. Asking things such as “how did this happen?” or “has it happened before?” can help you figure out what the damage is. The next thing to do is to observe the injury for breaks‚ swelling‚ muscle displacement‚ redness‚ lack of movement…etc.
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pitchers tend to overwork themselves‚ and the parents encourage the intense training because they are blinded by competition. Intense training or overworking is more formally known as overuse. According to Dr. Eric Parks‚ the author of "Prevention of Overuse Injuries in Young Baseball Pitchers‚" the definition of overuse is the repetitive micro-traumas a player experiences (Parks and Ray 514). Eric Parks is
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An ongoing‚ and unfortunately growing‚ problem in the United States is pediatric overuse of antibiotics. The audience to whom the responsibility of this problem falls includes pediatricians and family practice physicians who are in the position to prescribe and administer antibiotics to children. Antibiotics have been one of man’s greatest discoveries in the medical realm; saving thousands of lives that would have otherwise succumb to harmful‚ disease-causing bacteria.1 However‚ with the discovery
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What are the effects of the over-use of computer on people’s health In modern society ‚ the computer has become an indispensable tool in people’s lives and work ‚ but it also increasingly becoming a ‘double-edged sword’.When it bring people’s live and work quickly while also quietly endanger people’s health. According to the survey‚ those who over-use the computer feel tired eyes accounted for 83%‚low back pain accounted for 63.9%‚ loss of appetite and headaches accounted for 56.1% and 54.4%‚
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world of mathematics would be without irrational numbers? If the great Pythagorean hyppasus or any other mathematician would have not ever thought of such numbers? Before ‚understanding the development of irrational numbers ‚we should understand what these numbers originally are and who discovered them? In mathematics‚ an irrational number is any real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio a/b‚ where a and b are integers and b is non-zero. Irrational numbers are those real numbers that cannot
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Groundwater Use and Overuse The biggest reservoir of fresh‚ liquid water on earth is groundwater. There is more than 20 times as much water stored within the ground as in all the lakes and rivers combined. In many parts of the world‚ agricultural‚ industrial‚ and domestic water demands can only be met by pumping water out of the ground. As you’ll see in the diagram below‚ wells work only if they penetrate the water table - the name given to the subsurface boundary that separates saturated and
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Eddie Kaplan The use of tasers by the law enforcement agencies in general‚ and by police officers. This has become one of the most controversial issues in the area of criminal justice policy. This is because the issues are really straightforward and the issues at hand are serious. The use of taser should be permitted to extend that such use is necessary to police officers should have some understanding of the effects that using weapon is likely to have upon a suspect before using the weapon
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