Abstract:
Ariel Salleh’s commentary on four recent major sustainability documents dealt well with the failure to face up to the fundamental causes of the problem. Even most people in green agencies, and indeed most on the Left, refuse to recognise that the problem is due to levels of production and consumption that are far beyond sustainable, could never be extended to all the world’s people, and are now impossible for technical advance to solve. They do this in the face of facts and figures all of them must be quite familiar with, such as that the Australian footprint is 8 ha of productive land while the per capita amount that will be available to 9 billion people in 2050 will be only one-tenth of this amount. It should be transparently obvious that the problems cannot be solved without vast reductions in the amount of producing and consuming going on.
Details / PDF:
The full-text PDF of this article can be downloaded from Informit. You can purchase the article, or access Informit for free via a public library account, such as the State Library of Victoria.