When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
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Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.
It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
We have never been in danger of running out of resources, but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained.
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
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