renewable resources

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natural resources that are replenished by natural processes at a rate sufficient to sustain their use, including solar radiation, wind, flowing water, geothermal heat, and biological materials such as timber and food crops when managed sustainably; the concept of renewable resources underpins the case for transitioning away from finite fossil fuels toward energy and material systems that can be maintained indefinitely without resource depletion; however, the designation renewable does not guarantee sustainability: water can be extracted faster than aquifers recharge, forests can be felled faster than they regrow, and soil can be degraded faster than it forms; genuine sustainability requires not just using renewable resources but using them at rates within the regenerative capacity of natural systems