New Knowledge Creates New Resources

This finite resource model of the world implicitly assumes finite knowledge. It says, 'Knowledge creation has come to an end. We are stuck at this current point, and, therefore, based on the knowledge that we have currently, these are all the resources available to us. Now we must start conserving.'

Domestication, harvesting crops, metallurgy, chemistry, physics, developing engines and rockets—all of these are things that are taking things that we thought were worthless and turning them into resources. Uranium has gone from being completely worthless to being an incredible resource.

A resource is just something that, through knowledge, you can convert from one thing to another.