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All human beings are animals and therefore depend on the material, natural resources which constitute their environment. Human beings should not try to conquer their environment but learn to live in harmony with it. Whether the earth was created for man or with man, they are inter-dependent correlated expressions of life, and it is either man’s God-given or man’s inevitable responsibility to explore, develop and distribute the earth’s material, natural resources for the benefit rather than the ultimate impoverishment of himself and his fellow-men.
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Field, R.M. (1961). The Human Significance of Natural Resources. In: Boyko, H. (eds) Science and the Future of Mankind. World Academy of Art and Science, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6010-2_9
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