Summary

Energy and food are fundamental to human existence and therefore it should not come as a surprise that the way mankind have being using these resources produce the heart of many environmental problems that have emerged in recent years. As the population of the earth is flourishing different types of pollution are invading planet earth, but the emissions from the combustion of fuels in power stations and cars are probably the most worrying for most people, given the impact of air quality on health and the impact of flooding in certain parts of the world. More generally the use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, gas and fertilisers is increasingly seen as having major global environmental impacts such as global warming and eutrofication. There are also major concerns over the risk of release of radioactive materials taking the example of Chernobyl in 1986 as these sources are the substructure in what many describe an unsustainable form of industrial society, as the environment is used as a free resource of energy and other materials and as a more or less infinite sink for wastes, with the ratio and measure of the ‘throughput’ from source to sink growing ever greater. To therefore investigate if society can improve its well being a further investigation is required in relevant topics that will enable an individual to understand its theories and plots.