There is a big difference between Nonrenewable resources and Renewable. Renewable resources are great for the environment and has very little harm like solar panels, but one disadvantage to solar panels is that if you are trying to power a whole city it would take hundreds of panels and that takes up a lot of room. Now Nonrenewable resources are very bad for the the environment like fossil fuels we use these everyday when we drive and use other machines that require gas. what this does is it releases Carbon Dioxide into the air. some effects of this is the Ozone layer begins to slowly disappear also global warming starts to happen ice caps melt the water level rises these are all causes of us using nonrenewable resources instead of renewable we are slowly destroying the world we live in and it seems like no one cares.