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Renewable resources are flow-limited

🌱 Revisited July 28, 2026 at 8:35 AM Created January 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM Systems thinking 1 min read

You can extract a renewable resource indefinitely, but only at a slower pace than its replenishment rate. If you extract it at a faster pace, then you may drive the resource below a critical threshold, which would make it, for all practical purposes, nonrenewable.

Unfortunately, because systems change slowly, you may not notice that you are exhausting a renewable resource until you are well past the point of no return.

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