Envirofuel - Promoting sustainable mobility

The ASPO Australia web site has a transcript of an address given on 04 Mar 08 to the Brisbane Institute by the Honourable Andrew McNamara, Queensland Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation. In his presentation entitled “Highway of Diamonds” the Minister talks about sustainability in terms of climate change, peak oil and population density. The transcript is well worth a read.

The most interesting thing I took away from it was his reference to papers written in the 40’s and 70’s that show we’ve known for over 50 years that our world would not be able to support ever increasing numbers of humans with ever increasing appetites for consumption, yet we’ve turned a blind eye in the name of progress.