This can be unnecessarily stressful for parents and children and a waste of valuable resources.
The Department of Commerce says "illegal harvesting contributes to depletion of valuable resources".
This funding incentivises the destruction of valuable resources that would otherwise have been recovered with significant climate benefits".
Electoral politics determine the distribution of valuable resources, and moral commitments can mask otherwise naked resource competition.
Corbat: It's more around allocation of valuable resources — Michael de la Merced (@m_delamerced) 16 Oct 12 Wondering which other analysts will chime in.
Billions of dollars in Western aid to many of the world's poorest countries could be saved if revenue from the export of valuable resources went into the local economy, not the pockets of rulers.
Harvesting animals from the wild will never yield the quantity of the modern meat industry: but it will not cause the waste of valuable resources and pollution inherent in that industry either.
The idea – put forward by creditors – that a primary surplus could service a debt load of such scale, was he said, "an enormous austerity trap that deprives society of valuable resources".
"We are wasting millions of tons of valuable resources in landfills and incinerators because consumer product companies do not pay a nickel for the recycling infrastructure needed to be developed," he said.
Although minorities make up a third of the country's population, the land in so-called ethnic states covers more than half the country's territory and is full of valuable resources like timber, jade and minerals.
And when other factors push them back to the surface — the discovery of valuable resources, an assertion of national pride, a mishap at sea — the stakes can suddenly rise to a point where easy solutions become impossible.
