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Chapter 1: The global issue and differing perspectives. 1  Ocean resources include food, transportation, energy sources and a place to dispose of waste. 2  Fishing in the past was sustainable, but modern commercial fishing is not.
Resource Distribution Developed countries use more than their share of resources. For example, the average American uses 20 times the energy of a Costa Rican and 70 times of a Bangladeshi. The world s richest 1 billion people use 80% of the world s resources. That means that the other five billion plus people use only 20% of the world s resources.