In your opinion, what is Earth's most important natural resource?

Question

For impotant scientific survey, all answers appreciated, thank you for participating.

Answer 1

OIL

Answer 2

I can't stay quiet any longer about the politics of this land.  I have been contacting my senators and congressman about a couple of issues, and they were very glad to hear from me.  Here are the 2 issues:



1.  The senate is voting soon on the Supplemental Spending Bill for the Iraq War, and Diane Feinstein put in an amendment to grant amnesty to 1 million ILLEGAL immigrants because the produce is not getting picked in time.  Our economy is in so much trouble, and there are lots of LEGAL citizens that need the money and would be willing to work in agriculture.  There are plenty of youth that need good, hard-working jobs to earn them the money they need for college, cars, etc.  Feinstein's amendment is very inappropriate.  Once you start the amnesty policy, there will be no end.  I just saw a presentation on how excessive immigration will undo our country in many ways...too far to mention.



2.  Our country has lots of oil reserves in many states and out in the surrounding oceans.  We have the technology to drill for it in a responsible way to conserve the environment.  The Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah have oil shale that can be successfully developed for oil, and the Energy Policy of 2005 directed the BLM to lease these lands to those willing to develop the shale oil.  Now a moratorium was imposed as part of the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2008 to NOT allow the BLM to lease land for shale oil development.



It is my opinion that we should be calling our representatives and letting them know we will not vote for them if they don't allow us to glean our own oil resources in our own land and help our own people and our economy.  To go begging to Saudi Arabia for more oil is humiliating and unnecessary.  This is the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the world to take our money by the billions and give it to countries that are not friendly to us and then prohibit our own people from providing for themselves.



I have sent this out to many in different states.  If we each do our part, and spread the word, something can be done about this situation.  We the people are still in charge if we will take the responsibility.  I had a very good experience calling my representatives, both Republican and Democrat.  Their phone numbers were in the phone directory.  



Thanks for reading, and I hope you will take action.

Answer 3

water!

Answer 4

trees

Answer 5

1. Oxygen - you can only live about three minutes without it (could include rainforests and plankton which make most of our oxygen)

2. Water - you can only live about three days without it

Answer 6

Water

Answer 7

Ecosystems, everything in sync.  Balance is key to everything.

Answer 8

mantle rock

Answer 9

AIR

Answer 10

It's people.

Answer 11

peoples intellegence...............can change the world.............

Answer 12

Fresh water.

Answer 13

None or all. Important to whom? Natural resource for whom? We need to change the way we think, the natural world is not hierarchical with man at the top. We are all interconnected, interdependent, all essential parts of one system. Sunlight drives all life on earth.