With attention and money in scarce supply, what matters is that we first tackle the problems with the best solutions, doing the most good throughout the century.

The erosion of support for the government is due to its inefficiency inflation is triple official forecasts, and basic foodstuffs and fuel are scarce and their supply irregular.

In the past, tropical hardwoods were easily available, but the supply of some species, such as Burma teak, and mahogany, is now becoming scarce due to over exploitation.

Resources are scarce.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Our resources are scarce.

As it stands, only a few doses of ZMapp exist, and it will take months to produce even a modest supply. This raises another ethical dilemma Who should receive such a scarce resource?

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

When food is scarce, people share.

Of course, upward pressure on commodity prices also stems from supply side challenges. It is not just that global supplies of resources are increasingly scarce, but also that supplies are increasingly falling into inefficient hands.

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

Conflict is increasing as communities compete for scarce resources.

Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.

People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs.

This would help reduce consumption of scarce natural resources.

When information is plentiful, the scarce resource is attention.

In Germany, food was scarce, but only 5 died.

Things have value when they are both desirable and scarce.

Other than peat, dolomite, and limestone, natural resources are scarce.

The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

Society would be spending scarce resources on losers rather than winners.

Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II.

Evidence for prevalence of pain in newly diagnosed cancer is scarce.

Supply

The same is true for ground water. Land is also increasingly scarce.

Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water scarce areas.

Expansions usually start collapsing when labor gets too scarce and too expensive.

With resources so scarce, developing countries cannot afford the luxury of such waste.

But excessive secrecy leads to scarce resources being diverted into wild goose chases.

But even the scarce ingredients they have managed to find are running out.

C. Supply

Water Supply

Energy supply

Supply Section

Supply Section

We humans are very good at figuring out ways to make scarce things desirable.

Yet many young people are ill prepared for secondary school, and places are scarce.

At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.

Early colonial pioneers in New Zealand had sheep aplenty, but goose was relatively scarce.

First, such agreements threaten local food security and employment as fish become increasingly scarce.

Farmers living in areas where food security and resources are scarce lack financial capital.

Demand or Supply?

Spotlight Supply operations

Spotlight Supply operations

By misstating the problems, these approaches threaten to divert scarce resources into the wrong remedies.