Gamble, here is something you may be interested in.

Professor Ian Lowe’s address to the National Press Club at http://www.acfonline.org.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=921

“The increasing economic production from the natural systems of Australia is coming at an environmental cost. We are funding unsustainable levels of material consumption by running down our natural capital. Or, to put it in economic terms, we are operating our ecological accounts at a heavy deficit for which our children will pay.”

Also, there has apparently been a ‘vast’ new oil discovery in the Gulf which could hold between 3 billion and 15 billion barrels of oil. Fantastic news eh?

Well, even at 15 billion barrels, it would only provide oil the US for about an extra 2 years and 8 months at current consumption rates!! And of course consumption rates continue to increase there.

Just a couple of things to help indicate how utterly necessary it is to get the hell off our continuous growth paradigm and develop a stable sustainability-based society.