So its not something people would be too tempted to overexploit."

Few human societies have ever restrained their use of resources if they had the technology to overexploit them.

The fishery may not overexploit any of its resources.

Generally, they overexploit their new habitat and exceed the carrying capacity.

Those who pollute and overexploit the water should be strictly punished.

However, when placed under the stress of famine or poverty, single owners will also be forced to overexploit their means.

The prey is then able to overexploit its own food resources, until the population numbers decrease in abundance, which can lead to extinction.

If the normal market forces are distorted by financial intervention from the state, pressures to overexploit fish stocks are even greater.

60% of European cities overexploit their groundwater resources.

But when the fishermen take care not to overexploit seafood supplies, she makes sure the seas brim with abundance.

Capitalism is "ecologically irrational," with a systematic tendency to overexploit its natural resource base.

"Companies should look at the market and continue to invest to serve the demand and not to overexploit something that is not real," he added.

After the collapse of the last major spawning stock, the fishery dwindled but may have continued to overexploit the remaining small stocks.

In turn, the unchecked prey can then overexploit their own food resources until population numbers dwindle, possibly to the point of extinction.

Introduced predators and herbivores, for example, can overexploit native flora and fauna.

Civilizations rise in regions of abundant resources, overexploit them and despoil the land, and collapse.

“When you overexploit it, you throw it out of whack.”

People continue to overexploit fisheries

Our drive to overexploit comes from our ability to do so, and the imperatives of doing so economically and efficiently.

Polar bears, humpback whales and bald eagles have suffered from the cumulative effects of single decisions to overexploit or convert habitats.

Yet overfishing did not begin with the EU’s common policy, and even Icelanders would overexploit their waters if not restrained.

Rather than overexploit stationary algal stocks, the team focused on collecting and cultivating a variety of drifting algae, called Hypnea musciformis.

■ 60% of European cities overexploit their groundwater resources. ■ 50% of wetlands have "endangered status" due to groundwater over-exploitation.

This trend of extinction and extirpation is a common occurrence when humans populate a new area, because of tendencies to overhunt and overexploit resources.

America gave me the opportunity to do a totally different kind of work, and I am the sort of person who doesn't like to overexploit whatever I did that was successful.