Resources are available for human life. According to an initial rough division, these resources are energy, raw materials and the environment. Over time, people acquired an amplification factor by interacting with information, information technology and machinery. As a result, people are increasingly able to produce more and more products for consumption, health, entertainment and production, among other things. When organizing the process of distributing the manufactured products, financial resources have become the main focus – in many cases, it is money. Resources such as energy, raw materials and the environment are used to manufacture and distribute the products. Over time, this happens to an increasing extent.
The money generated in the form of wages, salaries, interest and returns is, as experience shows, usually distributed asymmetrically – often in the special form of "proportion". Correspondingly, there is also an asymmetrical distribution of products, resource inputs and resource consumption.
If, in the context of asymmetric distribution, rich countries pay little for their raw materials from poor countries and the manufacturing of products in poor countries, many people in poor countries can buy only a few products and thus consume few resources. Thus, rich countries favor themselves over poor countries.
For the sake of protecting natural resources, the use of non-renewable energy is increasingly being replaced by the use of renewable energy. Consumption of raw materials as a resource is also being partially restricted by the implementation of technical progress and recycling with the aim of conserving resource stocks.
The current use of fossil energy and raw materials, as well as the disposal of production waste and used products, results in environmental pollution, especially of air and water. Such environmental damage represents the consumption of the environment.
One of the reasons for the assignment problem is that environmental damage spreads across national borders in the air and water.
Furthermore, the question arises as to who is responsible for the environmental damage: the party commissioning the production, the producer or the consumer.
The question of whether the inhabitants of rich and poor countries are entitled to the same per capita share of product and environmental consumption is also of central importance, because the per capita environmental consumption that has already been realized in the rich countries is relatively high.
Consequently, the fight against environmental damage is taking place against a complex backdrop and provoking a special form of competition, which is obviously about concealing and neglecting existential tasks, especially in the area of environmental protection. However, the resources suggest, by their decrease, that there is a horizon of global existence.