finite resources
Not infinitely available
Finite resources are materials or assets that exist in limited quantities and cannot be replenished once depleted, or that regenerate so slowly as to be effectively exhaustible.
The term most often applies to natural resources like fossil fuels, minerals, and fresh water.
We need to reduce our dependence on finite resources like oil and natural gas.
The concept is central to economics and environmental policy, where it frames debates about sustainability, conservation, and the long-term consequences of consumption.
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- running outApproaching total depletion
- depletionReduction of supply
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
- fossil fuelsCombustible prehistoric organic deposits
natural gas · minerals · raw materials · exhaustion · peak oil · conservation · sustainability · water scarcity · mining · extraction · shortage · rationing · reserves · stockpile · supply chain · consumption · drought · famine
- resourcesmoney, capital, materials, supplies, assets
- Physical Limitsspeed of light, absolute zero, light speed, sound barrier, escape velocity
finite resourcesrenewable resources
Supplies that naturally replenish
sustainable resources · renewable energy · solar energy · wind power · hydropower
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