Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

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)