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"The Earth has enough resources to meet the needs of all but not enough to satisfy the greed of even one person"...How is this statement relevant to the discusion of development?..

Answer:
It means that you can always motivate people to work as hard as they can, producing enough stuff for themselves and others.

You do that by linking reward to effort, and making sure that employer cannot cheat the worker, and state cannot rob the companies. Since greed is boundless, you have people permanently working to achieve more. Which leads to development.

Of course, you need safeguards to make sure that stisfying one's greed does not hurts others, and provide education, and some sort of support for those who physically can't work.
It's relevant in that development policies should discourage excess and reward balance.
The writer appears to believe that the earth's resources, properly developed and stewarded, could support all living person's comfortably.

He also seems to believe that if we let greed (perhaps he really means 'capitalism') do the development, the result will be disparity such that the poorest go without basic necesseties but even the richest will feel uncontented - because the mouth of greed is never satisfied - it always cries for "more."

I would expect that his argument then continues with some alternative economic method besides capitalism.

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