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[DavidB]

One reason for this is that our system of national accounting used to measure progress considers the loss in value of factories and equipment, but does not consider the using up of natural resources.

from Making Peace

This sentence means that the current GNP calculations are not concerned with using up natural resources, but only factories and equipment losing value.


Natural resources are not artifice resources for instance, water, wood, coal, or air.

Right, natural resources are resources that weren't made by people. They occur naturally.

Natural resources include water, wood, animals, minerals and fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas, etc.).

[Kim young ju]

The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.

1.This sentence means that this effort to assist people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.
2.natural resources-A material source of wealth, such as timber, fresh water, or a mineral deposit, that occurs in a natural state and has economic value.
3.http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) plays a pivotal role in helping shape the important contributions of the natural resources sector to the Canadian economy, society and environment.

1.This sentence means that NRCan performs many things. for example,this plays a pivotal role in helping shape the important contributions of the natural resources sector to the Canadian economy, society and environment.
2.http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/inter/index_e.html

[DavidB]

The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.

I always get nervous when people talking about IMPROVING natural resources. How can you improve a tree? How can you improve the sky, or water?

We can find better ways to CONSERVE natural resources, and we can find better ways to UTILIZE (or use) them. But we can't really improve them.