The worldbank.org website defines natural resources as materials that occur in nature and are essential or useful to humans, such as water, air, land, forests, fish and wildlife, topsoil, fossil fuels and minerals. Thorough out civilization, the use of these resources has been the major factor in the continuation of the expansion of human life as we know it.
From the use of these resources by our ancestors hundreds of years ago, mankind has now advanced to a stage where the harnessing, coll...
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