Resources play an important role in any kind of development.
The Judicious consumption and overuse of resources can lead to many social, economic and environmental problems.
Planned and Judicious use of resources is called conservation.
In this context to thoughts of the great philosopher and thinker Mahatma Gandhi are clear or relevant. We have much to feed, but not to fill our stomaches.
According to him, greedy and selfish individuals are exploitative tendency of modern technology are responsible for resource depletion globally.
He was against excessive production and instead favoured production by a larger population.
He believed that this process would increase the development of work capacity in the workers and also put an end to the exploitation of resources.