Resource Policies and Administration for the Future

HE adequacy of raw materials and natural resources for the future has been a matter of major concern to people throughout history. It is of concern to people everywhere at the present time, although the contrast between the optimistic outlook in the United States and a few other advanced countries and the difficult outlook in the less developed countries is sharp. The need exists in both types of places, however, for wellconceived resource policies and their efficient administration. A continuation of present affluence, let alone its increase, depends upon maintaining the flow of low cost raw materials and resource services of many kinds. Escape from the circle (where it exists) of low income, poverty, inefficient production, and low income again, requires major augmentation of the supply of cheap food, hydroelectric power, fuels, metals, and fresh water. National security is impossible without large capacity to produce or otherwise obtain those raw materials necessary to support major military strength, and this now includes virtually all raw materials. Therefore, natural resources, both in the sense of products and in the sense of aspects of the environment such as amenities and economic location, remain important objects for national attention. This is true despite the declining role they play when their value is viewed as a per cent of the national product

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