As mass consumer of resources, buil...

As mass consumer of resources, builders and developer have an enormous stake in the now passing and future shape of the world's water timber land, mineral, and energy resources. The choices we make now can either accelerate our march toward resource depletion or aid in the heavy climb back toward equilibrium

FOR WE HAPPY not many who dwell in the United States, the land of limitless material wealth, resource depletion may strike one as being a distant threat. Our vast (and flourishing) forests, bulky tracts of land, gypsum mines, and legendary rivers have not at any time failed to deliver. But smooth here, nature is showing signs