Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

Water is unquestionably one of the most important natural resources and is essential for sustaining life.

Plastic should be a high value material... [It] should be in products that last a long time, and at the end of the life, you recycle it. To take oil or natural gas that took millions of years to produce and then to make a disposable product that last minutes or seconds, and then to just discard it--I think that's not a good way of using this resource. (Robert Haley)

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.