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  • adjective capable of being depleted

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Examples

  • It was this thought that guided me to formulate what became known as the ‘El Serafy method’ for estimating income from the revenue obtained in depletable resource extraction.

    Herman Daly Festschrift~ Hicksian income, welfare, and the steady state 2009

  • It offers nothing but fattening trifles that don\'t last long, wasteful and poorly thought-out ideas that go nowhere, unsustainable concepts or uneconomic implementations, politically untenable strategies, and wishful thinking using old depletable resources that are in short supply.

    OpEdNews - Diary: One Gift For The Holidays 2009

  • It offers nothing but fattening trifles that don't last long, wasteful and poorly thought-out ideas that go nowhere, unsustainable concepts or uneconomic implementations, politically untenable strategies, and wishful thinking using old depletable resources that are in short supply.

    OpEdNews - Diary: One Gift For The Holidays 2009

  • It offers nothing but fattening trifles that don't last long, wasteful and poorly thought-out ideas that go nowhere, unsustainable concepts or uneconomic implementations, politically untenable strategies, and wishful thinking using old depletable resources that are in short supply.

    OpEdNews - Diary: One Gift For The Holidays 2009

  • There will be plenty of time to transition to non-depletable technologies.

    Market Faces a Disturbing Oil Forecast - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • However many of the resources they contain are finite, degradable or depletable, which means that the economic analysis of common property resources will apply to them.

    Microeconomics and the environment 2008

  • All the living species found in terrestrial or marine ecosystems are potentially depletable if the rate of extraction is higher than their natural rate of renewal.

    Microeconomics and the environment 2008

  • The proper calculation of income from depletable natural resources.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3 2008

  • And since oil is a depletable resource, the country can eventually run out of oil and find itself worse off than before.

    Explaining differences in economic growth and development 2007

  • They along with other depletable gifts of nature can and should be placed in trust for future generations — not just figuratively, but literally.

    B2fxxx 2005

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