Since the 1970's technology has been driving us down a new road which was not foreseen. Nearly all the key re sources of the modern world are embodied in free, educated people - not hidden in the ground. Possession of resources is no longer necessary. Advanced countries no longer need to carve out new cheap resources. Technology is drying up the need for resource s or concerns about scarcity.
Technology creates resources.
Technological efficiency has provided the resources. The modern economy derives an i ncreasing proportion of its wealth from the production and consumption of information, which is not a scarce resource. It can be duplicated and transported with little use of physical resources. There is too much. Call it Eco-Marxism, if you will.