SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES

Sustainable or Unsustainable?

History has taught us mankind has two choices – a sustainable use of resources or a unsustainable use of resources. From experience and by using science we can learn how to develop sustainable practices and systems. A starting point is to measure what we do and our impacts. This will tell us whether our systems and practices are sustainable and help us develop viable practices.

Short Term Benefits and Long Term Impacts

Constantly the conflict between the short term and the long term appears in resource utilization, management and conservation. The long term view is too often short changed in the rush to utilize resources, develop our economies or just plain old greed. History is replete with mankind once again learning the hard way that mother nature does not provide free lunches.