A good predictor of the future events will either tell you that something is likely to happen, or when something is likely to happen, but never both.
We’ve heard a lot of nonsense in regard to non-sustainability, that is that some sort of un-named catastrophe will result if we don’t do something.
In the late 1970′s economists from all around the world met in Rome concerning the oil crisis, their prediction – we would run out of oil entirely by the late 1990′s. What they failed to consider, among other things, was fuel injection. Up until that time most car’s used carburetors to mix fuel and air, fuel injection was a great deal more efficient, and cheap to produce.
Unsustainable, is a term used by politicians to promote a remedy to thwart an impending unknown outcome, produced by actions they do not understand, can not explain, yet for which they are convinced you must pay.