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

all constituencies to preserve and protect the state's natural resources.

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)

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

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