Poverty In The United States Essay

Some may ask how poverty effects the united states and its natural and human ecosystems? I say it’s quite obvious and yet so many people are still oblivious to it, by the world being to overpopulated that causes a ripple effect on all of our natural resources. The more over populated the world becomes the more we use natural resources at a substantially higher rate, causing the ecosystem to go on a downward spiral that will affect the human race and potentially destroy it. Growing up I never understood the importance of turning off the lights when I’m not in that room, or not leaving the water running, or wasting food. Now that I am in adulthood I understand why our parents would constantly nag us about these things that simple so unimportant

Between 1950 and 2005 the united states population has nearly double, and what that means is that between those times the united states consumption of energy alone has tripled, such as petroleum, coal, and water. Prb.org. Though that may not seem relevant it is very relevant due to that fact the united states is the only country who continues to grow by population more than any other country and yet we manage to use most of the worlds natural resources. Some studies have found that a household with a higher income tend to have more cars than those of a lower household income, and although there may be less people in the household the car ownership has doubled, meaning that Americans are less likely to carpool, take public transit, or walk to work. (The share of workers who drove to work alone rose from 64 percent to 76 percent between 1980 and 2000. During that same period, the share that carpooled fell from 20 percent to 12 percent.11) Source: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, "Distribution of Vehicles and Persons per Household," (www.fhwa.dot.gov, accessed Oct. 5,