The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

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)

Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.

We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.