Renewable resources are flow limited

🌱 Seedling · 1 min

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.

Source: Thinking in Systems

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