depletable

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• Everything we make or use, including our lives, is depletable.

  Blog text (11)

• According to ecological economists, today all trading regions exceed their own ecological carrying capacity, become dependent on imports of depletable resources, and ultimately reach the same limiting factor.

  Academic text (2005)

• So it's exhaustible, it's depletable, but it's renewable as well.

  Andrew Huberman

• The difference is that geothermal energy generally is not depletable on any human timescale.

  Blog text (11)

• Fish are a traditional, depletable common-pool resource; public land can fall under either category; and air pollution is a more global issue that affects the world at large.

  Academic text (1998)

• Some might argue that geothermal is depletable because you have to keep drilling new wells (owing to the fact that rock is a poor conductor of heat).

  Blog text (11)

• When the major oil-exporting countries are again receiving substantial revenues and are being called upon to increase production each year, their probable economic and political strategy will be to require a premium above the inflation rate in return for increasing withdrawals from an essentially depletable resource.

  Academic text (1991)

• But Inzlicht and Schmeichel point out that a newer crop of studies is yielding results that don't fit with this idea of self-control as a depletable resource.

  Blog text (19)

• Higher oil production today just leaves the world with less of this depletable resource for the future.

• Everything we make or use, including our lives, is depletable.

Synonyms

E

exhaustible

vsdepletable

1 6.5

Able to be used up

is a general label for anything that can be used up

How Depletable

depletable

1 7.2

finite

56 4.1

renewable

108 3.8

inexhaustible

10 6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology