Overuse of resources is accelerating current negative trends in climate change, ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity loss. The ultimate outcome is that contemporary human society is reaching or exceeding the limits of planetary boundaries. It is therefore imperative to articulate a new theoretical understanding of resources and the ethical, political, and environmental conditions of their use. In this article, we take a radical departure from treating resources as having fixed, essential and ready to exploit qualities, and offer a non-essentialist theory that considers that resources come into being as a result of social processes. We label this approach resourcification. This shift offers a new theoretical platform for developing a post-sustainability understanding of the relationships of humans to humans, to other living creatures, and to the physical environment, one that is more suited to meeting the challenges of working with the sustainable development goals in the Anthropocene.

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资源化：可持续发展资源的非本质主义理论

过度使用资源正在加速当前气候变化、生态系统破坏和生物多样性丧失的负面趋势。最终的结果是，当代人类社会正在达到或超越地球边界的极限。因此，必须阐明对资源及其使用的伦理、政治和环境条件的新理论理解。在本文中，我们从根本上将资源视为具有固定、必要和可利用的品质，并提供一种非本质主义理论，认为资源是社会过程的结果。我们将这种方法标记为资源化. 这一转变提供了一个新的理论平台，用于发展对人类与人类、其他生物和物理环境之间关系的后可持续发展理解，该平台更适合应对在实现可持续发展目标方面面临的挑战。人类世。