The harvesting of non-renewable sources can generate impacts such as huge volumes of rock and soil from extractions being dumped in other locations, affecting the local ecosystems. The sites in which land is being mined, the quality of the soil decreases over time, getting really poor and sometimes even polluted by chemicals, polluting nearby water as well. Drilling and extracting natural gas can cause methane to leak, and methane is a potent greenhouse gas, rising temperatures and changing weather patterns. There are many impacts that can be caused by the use of non-renewable resources, and as we can see they start from its harvest and extraction.