0 Exhaustible supplies of something can be used completely so there are none left:
Pure declines in nutrient stocks, and losses of topsoil and soil-physical structures are therefore parallels to the distinction between renewable and exhaustible resources.
Contemplation of the world's disappearing supplies of minerals, forests, and other exhaustible assets has led to demands for regulation of their exploration.
Finally, the primary feature driving the concern over the use of these drugs is that the evolution of resistance makes these 'miracle' drugs exhaustible.
For this reason they are called exhaustible resources.
The availability of open access, exhaustible resources often induces 'gold rush' patterns of excessively fast exploitation with accompanying maladapted patterns of infrastructure and social development.
Turtles can be considered an exhaustible natural resource.
For exhaustible resources the optimal growth path is not sustainable if resources are essential for production and the pure rate of time preference is positive.
For example, the stock of an exhaustible resource cannot be increased.
