If the resources are finite then how are economies growing?

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If the resources are finite then how are economies growing?

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Developing new ways to use existing resources. Or… new ways to harvest fallow fields. Oil fields in US were shallow making oil very hard to exploit for a long time. With the advent of horizontal drilling and fracking, a finite resource considered tapped out is generating the largest record oil drilling. Usually renewable resources means growing them. Usually finite resources means higher efficiency.