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“Environmental Change,” Homer-Dixon,

Boutwell, and Rathjens, 40

Homer-Dixon, Boutwell, and Rathjens use financial terms to describe resource consumption. Depleting resources faster than they can be renewed is “the consumption of the resource’s ‘capital.’” Accordingly, a “sustainable economy” is one that “leaves the capital intact and undamaged so that future generations can enjoy undiminished income.”

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