The Earth's population is glowing at an astounding 1.07% per year. With that being said, Earth's natural resources are also depleting with the growing population. We must reserve our nonrenewable resources in order to continue living and improving ways of life. Using energy sources such as coal and oil are not good for the environment, because they are nonrenewable and create serious air pollution issues. Hydroelectric and wind power create less pollution and are easily accessible. What are other forms of energy that could protect our environment and fuel our growing population?

Another source of energy is from the sun! Alternatives to energy sources from oils and coal are solar panels! Solar panels are a source of clean energy that does not produce any greenhouse gasses. According to Leanna Garfield at Science Alert, "the global population could be 33 percent larger in 35 years than it is today". This continuous growth of the population and the need for more energy creates a problem that can be helped by harnessing the energy from the sun through solar panels.
Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world- … port-finds

Overpopulation is major issue that I too believe is looked past too often. Like Alden stated, we need to find more alternatives to gas and coal energy to keep up with the growing energy consumption of our growing population. While we are moving to some newer energy alternatives such as wind, water, and solar energy, they are not nearly as prominent as they should be. I believe that this is due to people not wanting to change their lifestyle to adjust to new energy sources. One example of this is the growing number of nuclear plants closing down. Even though nuclear energy is incredibly efficient and much safer than gas plants, people don't like "nuclear" being the source of their energy because it is associated with terrible events. We need to accept change to become more efficient as a race.

I agree with all the points you mentioned and It is an issue that people don't take into attention as much as they need to. Our world is truly depleting it's natural resources and I read an article about it on National Geographic where it discussed different forms of energy we could use to protect our environment. One of these was using solar panels for electricity. They explained that these are very environmentally friendly and that they use our abundant natural resources and they don't depend on ones that are depleting.