SUMMARY - What Counts as a “Natural Resource”? Rethinking Our Relationship
We speak of "natural resources" as if the concept were obvious—things from nature that we use. But the category is neither natural nor inevitable. It reflects a particular relationship with the more-than-human world: one where nature exists primarily for human extraction. Other relationships are possible—and questioning the resource framing may be necessary for fundamentally different ways of living with the Earth.