Sustainability report sparks conversation

13 May, 2013 Lisa Rapley

A new report from the National Sustainability Council (NSC) has been welcomed by several industry bodies, saying it is the start of a new conversation around sustainability in the country.

‘Sustainable Australia Report 2013: Conversations with the Future’ provides a picture of Australia and how the country has changed in the past 30 years.  Through roundtables and other meetings between various government, business, tertiary and environmental groups, the report was developed and looks at economic, social, environmental and other relevant issues to sustainability.

The Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council (ASBEC) president Tom Roper says, “The report highlights the important role Australia’s built environment – and in particular our cities – will have in securing a sustainable future for all Australians.”

While the report finds the 18 major cities rank among the best in the world on global indices of liveability, they lag behind in terms of sustainability – particularly energy consumption, car dependence and equity.

“A sustainable future means creating cities that are liveable, competitive, productive and healthy for everyone,” Roper says.

My Take - First of all let me point out that no matter how good things are.....they're never good enough for the greenies.....so long as there is energy consumption, car dependence and (some problem or other with) equity.  In order to have a stable, thriving modern industrialized society we need abundant inexpensive energy.  We now know that kind of energy is available (although there were those of who believed that right along); and what does car dependence mean?  It means they want humanity herded into small enclaves with massive public transportation, or living in walking distance to everything. 

The last part tells the real tale.  Equity!  That means they will then decide who has what and how much.  This whole claptrap about sustainability, and the verbiage used to promote it, is nothing more than an emotional smokescreen for socialist central planning schemes….schemes that have failed economically, equitably, sustainably or in any humanitarian way conceivable all over the world wherever it has been attempted.  The only thing these sustainability programs sustain are the lies that socialism, in all its manifestations including environmentalism, is a viable alternative to capitalism, which focuses on the individual and not the collective.   The collective (socialist monsters of the 20th century) murdered over 100 million innocent people to perfect humanity in a collective paradise.  They failed; and all those people are still dead.