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Originally Posted by Bagor
I love the word "sustainable". Throw it into a sentence and everything is hunkey dorey. Bethcha it's the most common word over 10 letters in annual reports.
Curious ... define your "interpretation" of it.
I'll go back to my definition of unsustainable.
In the next 20 years India will have huge food shortage issues (famine) due to a collapse of their water table as a result of unsustainable use.
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My definition of sustainable is balancing economic interests with environmental ones. The truth is too much of the world's economy and technology is reliant on oil and gas, and you're not going to change that over night.
The idea of shutting down the oilsands for example is pure nonsense. It's not going to happen. The economic impact is too significant. But there are ways to make the oilsands more environmentally friendly (tailings ponds being one of them).