INHABITABLE RESOURCES – TRENDS OF USE
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https://doi.org/10.59417/nir.2020.16.45Keywords:
non-renewable resources, environment, recycling, global economy, environmentAbstract
There is a fixed amount of non-renewable resources on the planet, including metallic and non-metallic minerals, coal, oil and natural gas. We have large inventories of some resources, such as iron; supplies of others, such as mercury or helium, are relatively limited. The global economy uses these resources – often at rising rates. Is it a reason for an alert? So, in 1972, authors of the original Limits to Growth report were reiterated and similarly warned twenty years later, the current issue remains at the global level.
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