What is our personal responsibility toward the natural world, toward what we term our natural resources
500 word, MLA style and cite sources. What power do we have over events? Of course, the word resource implies something to be used, yet how far do we go? Read about the conflicts between jobs and the environment that have been prominent in this country. Does the need to preserve age-old redwood forests outweighs logger's needs for paychecks in California? Are fish in the Gulf of Mexico more important; than jobs for the commercial fisherman living along that coast? Is offshore and deep-water drilling for oil more important than wither the commercial fisheries industries or coastal tourism? Conflicts such as these often settled in court.