What Is Environmental Scarcity?

Under certain socio-economic conditions, the nature of a certain natural resource exists when there is competition in the use of that natural resource. There are two meanings of absolute scarcity and relative scarcity: the contradiction between limited resources and unlimited demand makes resources more difficult to obtain, resulting in absolute scarcity; environmental degradation and resource consumption increase the cost of resource extraction and generate relative scarcity. Reasonable development and utilization of resources, technological progress, and research and development of alternatives can alleviate scarcity; excessive population growth, rising per capita consumption, and irrational development and utilization will exacerbate scarcity.