Comments on: What would you do to improve sustainability and what is the key to global citizenship? http://okavangochallenge.com/sustainability/what-would-you-do-to-improve-sustainability-and-what-is-the-key-to-global-citizenship Sat, 19 May 2012 14:27:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ghadahav Morchaffi http://okavangochallenge.com/sustainability/what-would-you-do-to-improve-sustainability-and-what-is-the-key-to-global-citizenship/comment-page-1#comment-3494 Ghadahav Morchaffi Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:45:59 +0000 http://okavangochallenge.com/sustainability/what-would-you-do-to-improve-sustainability-and-what-is-the-key-to-global-citizenship#comment-3494 the premise is that you can know everything you need to know about sustaining resources in the present timeframe with present technology. but you can't. thus the premise is flawed. for example, in the 70's the Club of Rome released a report that said there was a coming crisis that would cause oil to run out. but as we have found in the intervening years, the oils companies have found ever more clever ways to extract oil. In addition, the invisible hand moves when prices rise. Check out what happened in Alberta [tar sands were only discovered in the 80's by a 'new' technology to use sonar to find oil] Then in 2007, the tar sands began to become economic to extract, thereby enabling 30% of world supply to become available at the new higher price.<br><b>References : </b><br> the premise is that you can know everything you need to know about sustaining resources in the present timeframe with present technology. but you can’t. thus the premise is flawed.

for example, in the 70’s the Club of Rome released a report that said there was a coming crisis that would cause oil to run out. but as we have found in the intervening years, the oils companies have found ever more clever ways to extract oil. In addition, the invisible hand moves when prices rise. Check out what happened in Alberta [tar sands were only discovered in the 80's by a 'new' technology to use sonar to find oil] Then in 2007, the tar sands began to become economic to extract, thereby enabling 30% of world supply to become available at the new higher price.
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