2. What resources does the planet offer?

Why it matters

Needs are met with resources: land, energy, water, materials. Their amount is limited, and how much each person can use depends on how many share them.

Articles, in order

1. Land per Person: how much land there is for each person, and what food and housing take up.
2. Fair Globe Sharing: how the world’s resources are spread today, and what fairer sharing could look like.
3. Nature and Water: the living systems and fresh water every economy depends on, and how much pressure they are under.

How they connect

Land per Person makes the limits concrete for one person; Fair Globe Sharing widens the view to everyone, including who uses far more than their share. Together they show the gap between people’s needs and what the planet can give. Nature and Water adds what lives on that land and flows through it, which is harder to replace than money suggests.

Next: 3. How does society turn those resources into what people need?