Resources are not equal: Exploring ranking not weighting

What happens if resources get scarce? People are very fast changing to local and reliable solutions. Look at Greece today: Jobless people are moving out of Athens, to start living with parents or family in the countryside: It's the best option to save money and have the most important resource secured: water and food. It shows energy is not their most urgent problem, in fact you could say CO2 emissions are no issue anymore, but food and water are the most precious resources. In this paper we explore the importance of resources relative to each other, to be able to evaluate the findings and develop a set of priorities and rules to deal with in restructuring our resource use. Examples in the paper show that there is a strong relation between different resources and uses of these in order of importance. This leads to a proposal for a new approach in assessing resources: ranking instead of weighting. In times of stress, either in income or availability of goods or resources, choice protocols will have to chan...