ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how humans make use of biological resources, forests and the Earth, as well as non-renewable resources. The pollution of obviously non-separable, non-exclusive resources, such as air and fresh water, in the course of over-exploitation of non-renewable resources is equally startling. The resources that are scarce happen to have a high level of separability and exclusivity, this is the greatest strength of the 'classic' development model, whereas non-separable, non-exclusive resources are virtually inexhaustible. The only way for human civilization to progress is by recognizing the need to limit the consumption of natural resources and modifying our lives so that people consume only an appropriate amount of those resources. In actual fact, the economies developed on the 'classic' model during the years when resources were plentiful, have been consuming more and more resources to produce less; and those industries in most serious decline now are those, which, in the past, were most wasteful.
