Our society, for the sake of sustaining and promoting billions of lives, has to face the facts that we consume our environment and contribute to immense amounts of waste. For centuries, economists, designers, architects, and politicians have been concerned with how to efficiently create and build cities to minimize waste and inefficiencies.
Resource Management as a Key Factor… has been a great change of pace reading because it demonstrates how over time our leaders have been concerned with our development and space utilization. I agree with the overarching journal theme that we need to focus on resources management. RM is imperative because now that we have reached a mature global economy and heavily developed population, it is crucial to emphasize that resource management will now dictate the rest of our future and economics going forward. Our modern way of economics concerns the combination of two concepts: Supply and Demand. In order to progress past traditional development and resource utilization, we have to acknowledge that our Capitalist practices do not exist in a vacuum, nor will resources be so easy to come by.
In one essence, our energy demands are a great foreshadowing factor in how the world will develop over the coming centuries. As the article points out, various methods of energy have to be explored to sustain our demands. The beginning of the 21st century marked an era when we faced the fact that our oil and coal resources will not last much longer. The article suggests that over time we have adapted our resource usage to match our developing needs. For example, in the 20th century emerged Nuclear, Natural Gas, and other alternative energies such as Wind, Solar, and Hydro. This shift in energy consumption and development is a good forecast for how our society will use resources management to usher in a future of redevelopment and more environmental balance.
