Nature is full of resources used by human beings. Humanity, in general, since the most remote times, has always made use of the goods available in nature for its sustenance. However, over time, human beings have also learned to cultivate and accumulate the goods extracted thanks to the development of agriculture and livestock.
Nowadays, with the advance of the capitalist system and its consolidation around the world, this logic has intensified, causing a large amount of natural resources to be used and traded around the world. In addition, a good part of these raw materials is transformed into other products, which are the goods produced almost always by the industries.
For this reason, we can see that natural resources are of vital importance for the functioning of societies, which means that some of them have a high strategic degree. An example of this is oil, which is used in the manufacture of fuels, oils, solvents, plastics and other materials, being the target of wars and disputes between countries to obtain it.
But if we continue to use the planet's natural resources continuously, they will run out, right? It depends. Some of these resources can be preserved and used in the future, as long as societies know how to conserve them. To better understand this, we divided natural resources into renewable and non-renewable.
Non-renewable natural resources are those that are available in nature, but that will eventually run out. An example of this is oil itself, which has limited reserves in nature; another case is aluminum and copper, as well as numerous other examples.
