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2 From Exploiting Resources to Exploring Our Resourcefulness

WE CAN EXPLOIT the world’s resources, be they land, water, air, or the creatures that inhabit them, including ourselves as “human resources.” Or we can explore our own natural resourcefulness. In a 1991 paper, James G. March contrasted “the exploration of new possibilities” with “the exploitation of old certainties,” concluding that the latter may be “effective in the short run but self-destructive in the long run” (p. 7).