Is the world using up its resources?

Rand Simberg writes for TechCentralStation and he says "no":

As the old joke goes about the woman who will consent to intimate relations with a guy in the bar for a million dollars, but not for ten, we've already established what she is -- now we're just haggling over the price. Similarly, all resources are renewable, at some cost. The issue is what the most practical use for any given resource is at any given point in time -- to renew other resources with it, or to increase individual and national wealth with it, to enable us to make more resources more affordably renewable in the future?

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