Imagine the world 50 years from now; picture the scenario of dark skies, gloomy clouds everything around you either is dying or has died. This exactly will take place if nobody takes action against the " potentially earth shattering problems". This horrible scenario would be the result of mankind's failure to cooperate and live in harmony with the environment. All that is left will be memories of the past.
             There is always an earthly unbalance between Mother Nature and the human race; nothing we do can even achieve a stable equilibrium to this. Hence we have to identify the various natural resources and the methods in exploiting them. The production of minerals often conflicts with the conservation of other resources, especially as needs grow while environmental quality shrinks.
             Firstly, mining activities: used to mine several key and important mineral resources like iron ore and coal. Damages caused? During open surface mining operations, it alters the land-use pattern, destroys fertile topsoil, rendering it unproductive. Mining produces pollutants, including dust and noise pollution, caused by rock mining. Land surfaces and the environment are affected. Although these by hereby are short listed effects I'm sure that this is often the overlooked part to mining.
             Moving on to the second part, Oil and Gas, the petroleum industry is no different than any other business. It exists to make money and will pursue any means to profit. The world doesn't realize how much of an impact the petroleum industry has on the world economy. Oil indirectly links to the combustion process that happens in every petroleum powered car, but we never seem to think twice when fill every bit of our tank with petrol; we actually take a piece of the environment with it. Petrol use affects the environment negatively. For example, the burning of fuels causes pollutants, dust and black smoke, and oil-based lubricants are deposited into the sewerage system
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