• when other countries are loosing some of the resources that they need, and that we are still producing: we can sell the resources to those countries, enabling America to make a profit.
• when we keep loosing more and more resources our technology will keep advancing and the scientist will look even harder for a solution to this problem

Cons

• if America keeps loosing these important resources we have to either buy or trade something in order to get the resources that we are loosing
• if there is controversy among the countries involved in trading, they can keep raising the prices of the resources to other countries causeing financial hardships for the resource-depleted countries
• if we completely loose certain resources it begins to destroy the earth's crust