Scarcity of resources is not an impediment but an enabler for frugal innovation.

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Noting that America must put its "fiscal house" in order, President Obama introduces the paper as America's solution to a scarcity of resources and growing complexity of challenges.

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The remarkable fact is that, even though the earth's population has more than trebled in a century, the best measure of the scarcity of resources price has fallen virtually throughout that time for just about everything extracted from or grown in the earth, yet has risen, in the form of wages, for the one thing that has become far more abundant: people.

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Second, worsening scarcity of critical resources like clean water, clean air, electric power, and land (and increasing oversupply of traffic, pollution, and greenhouse gases).

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On one hand, sustainability creates huge opportunities by catalysing innovation and on the other, it calls for transformation in which global challenges of growth, urbanization, scarcity of natural resources and environmental change will become key strategic business drivers.

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Scarcity is a powerful force and it leaves those in control of limited resources wielding great power.

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Like many maternity clinics in rural parts of Africa, the health center in Atitiri is lacking several necessary resources -- shortage of running water, electricity challenges, broken beds and scarcity of medicines all make Madudu's job very difficult.

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