The limits of natural resources suggest three basic rules in relation to sustainable rates of development.
1. No renewable resource should be used at a rate higher than its generation.
2. No contaminant should be produced at a rate higher than it can be recycled, neutralized or absorbed by the environment.
3. No non-renewable resource should be used faster than is necessary to replace it with a renewable resource used sustainably. According to some authors, these three rules are necessarily subject to the non-existence of population growth.
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