meanings

In a world where people are managed in corporations by HR (human resource) departments, it should not surprise that the Trump administration has referred to people as "Human Capital Stock"  And we should note that the word "resource" when applied to mineable metals, wood products and fertile soil, is generally, contrary to what the prefix "re" should mean, in reference to things that are used up in the effort to make other things; for instance, soil to make food, or people to make corporate  profit.

"Renew", "restore", "rebuild", "replenish"  are all uses of the same prefix that indicate taking some kind of care.  But with "resource" the meaning seems to fall away and I wonder if that does not indicate either a carelessness in language or a deliberate destruction of meaning in pursuit of what we want.
There is more of the advertising lingo here than of careful precise speech.

What if we began to refer to fertile living soil as part of Creation-or creation if religion makes us squeamish.  Soil then becomes a made thing, made by God.  It also takes on the meaning of "gift".  And it involves us in using that which we did not make, with the sense of gratitude and responsibility that entails.

We must somehow become responsible for our impacts upon that which we did not make, certainly including people.  If we have sufficiently ruined the meaning of "resource" it may help to use other words, other language, to remind ourselves of our responsibilities in the world.