natural resources

• administered as community property in light and life

55:3.7The nat­u­ral re­sources of this planet were ad­min­is­tered as so­cial pos­ses­sions, com­mu­nity prop­erty.

• early wars fought over deposits of n.r.

69:4.6Mod­ern writ­ing orig­i­nated in the early trade rec­ords; the first lit­er­a­ture of man was a trade-pro­mo­tion doc­u­ment, a salt ad­ver­tise­ment. Many of the ear­lier wars were fought over nat­u­ral de­posits, such as flint, salt, and met­als. The first for­mal tribal treaty con­cerned the in­ter­trib­al­iz­ing of a salt de­posit. These treaty spots af­forded op­por­tu­nity for friendly and peace­ful in­ter­change of ideas and the in­ter­min­gling of var­i­ous tribes.

• held as social trust in continental nation

72:6.74. The in­come from nat­u­ral re­sources. All nat­u­ral wealth on the con­ti­nent is held as a so­cial trust by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, and the in­come there­from is uti­lized for so­cial pur­poses, such as dis­ease pre­ven­tion, ed­u­ca­tion of ge­niuses, and ex­penses of es­pe­cially promis­ing in­di­vid­u­als in the states­man­ship schools. One half of the in­come from nat­u­ral re­sources goes to the old-age pen­sion fund.

• held as social trust in continental nation

72:7.135. Nat­u­ral re­sources. The in­come from nat­u­ral re­sources, when not fully re­quired for the spe­cific pur­poses des­ig­nated in the char­ter of fed­eral state­hood, is turned into the na­tional trea­sury.

• largely determine extent of material civilization

78:2.4Adam left a great in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual cul­ture be­hind him, but it was not ad­vanced in me­chan­i­cal ap­pli­ances since ev­ery civ­i­liza­tion is lim­ited by avail­able nat­u­ral re­sources, in­her­ent ge­nius, and suf­fi­cient leisure to in­sure in­ven­tive fruition. The civ­i­liza­tion of the vi­o­let race was pred­i­cated on the pres­ence of Adam and on the tra­di­tions of the first Eden. Af­ter Adam’s death and as these tra­di­tions grew dim through the pass­ing mil­len­ni­ums, the cul­tural level of the Adamites steadily de­te­ri­o­rated un­til it reached a state of re­cip­ro­cal bal­ance with the sta­tus of the sur­round­ing peo­ples and the nat­u­rally evolv­ing cul­tural ca­pac­i­ties of the vi­o­let race.

• largely determine extent of material civilization

81:6.31. Nat­u­ral cir­cum­stances. The na­ture and ex­tent of a ma­te­rial civ­i­liza­tion is in large mea­sure de­ter­mined by the nat­u­ral re­sources avail­able. Cli­mate, weather, and nu­mer­ous phys­i­cal con­di­tions are fac­tors in the evo­lu­tion of cul­ture.

• share discoveries with largest number of fellows

132:5.16“2. Ev­ery­one who en­joys wealth as a re­sult of dis­cov­ery should re­mem­ber that one in­di­vid­ual can live on earth but a short sea­son and should, there­fore, make ad­e­quate pro­vi­sion for the shar­ing of these dis­cov­er­ies in help­ful ways by the largest pos­si­ble num­ber of his fel­low men. While the dis­cov­erer should not be de­nied all re­ward for ef­forts of dis­cov­ery, nei­ther should he self­ishly pre­sume to lay claim to all of the ad­van­tages and bless­ings to be de­rived from the un­cov­er­ing of na­ture’s hoarded re­sources.