What are natural and artificial burden?
As discussed earlier, society is another name for mutual cooperation in specific areas. There is an inherent right for an individual to extract resources from the society as per legitimate need, if he is fulfilling the requirements that are expected by the other contributors of the society. This extraction of the resources is the basis of the burden applied to the society by an individual. If the burden is in accordance with the NEPs, then this is called natural burden, while if the burden is out of line with the NEPs, then this is called artificial burden.