Australia's Sustainable Choice

According to the United Nations, true sustainability is ‘development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. In other words, a pattern of resource use that preserves the environment for future generations, to ensure their economic and social wellbeing.

Growing a bigger population funded by the rapid depletion of Australia's finite mineral and energy resources is a recipe for economic, environmental and social disaster. It is inherently unsustainable. According to Federal Government body Geoscience Australia, at current rates of extraction many of Australia’s major energy sources and minerals will be fully depleted this century. This includes crude oil (2020), LPG (2031), LNG (2074), iron ore (2081) and black coal (2100). But these dates look optimistic as we continue to increase extraction rates in order to fund the imports, infrastructure and services required by an ever-increasing population. What will future generations export to stay in the first world?

The urgency of the issue is compounded by the potential impacts of peak oil production (the end of cheap oil), climate change, diminished water and food security, and biodiversity loss including species extinctions.

In a finite world, only a stable population focused on sustainable behaviour can ensure long term economic prosperity.

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