No Resources Occur "Naturally"

Commenting on this blog post, Arrowsmith writes that

It's the peoples' natural resources. It's god-given by god.

I disagree.  Non-human nature supplies a wide variety of atomically and molecularly different things – things that we English speakers now call "petroleum" and "land" and "magnesium" and "helium" and "trees" and "gold" and on and on and on.  But none of these things is naturally a "resource" – that is, none of these things is something made exclusively by nature to be useful to...

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Published on August 27, 2010 13:35
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