Often used to mean oil, gas, and other things whose supply will eventually be exhausted, even though a ‘resource’ is something that springs up again. (A species of fish that is fished to extinction is obviously an ex-resource.) Term originates in the writings of the 18th-century economist Adam Smith, and implies that everything on planet Earth is there to be exploited by humankind.
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