388 Ecological Sustainability
(4) A slow rise in the cost of electric energy from all sources.
(5) A gradual rise in the cost of all natural resources (wood, minerals,
FFs).
(6) A slow, global, rise in air and water pollution. This will be from human
waste and industrial wastes, including the GHGs CO
2
and CH
4
. This
pollution will continue to negatively impact ecosystems, sheries,
agriculture, and human health.
(7) Human ecological sustainability will also be negatively impacted by
an increase in pathogenic fungi, viruses, and bacteria, some spread
by insects and rodents. The continual use (overuse) of antibiotics and
pesticides in factory farms, in animal feedlots, and domestically is
causing pathogen mutations that are antibiotic resi ...