EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -In the last several hundred years, both human population and resource consumption have increased dramatically. There are limits to many of our natural resources, materials, and energy sources found in nature, that humans need to survive.

Detailed explanation-2: -Due to the growth of world population, continued high levels of resource consumption in the developed world and rapid industrialisation of countries such as China, India and Brazil, worldwide demand on natural resources and related pressures on the environment are steadily increasing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Overconsumption means consuming resources that we cannot replenish or that cannot sustain themselves at the rate we are consuming them. Ecosystems are unable to cope with excessive resource extraction, resulting in biodiversity loss and the deterioration of the natural world.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Wikipedia definition says that “Overconsumption describes a situation where the use of a natural resource has exceeded the sustainable capacity of a system. A prolonged pattern of overconsumption leads to the eventual loss of resource bases”.