BIFM "Sustainababble"

Thanks to Angela for the article circulated between the office's ERD group. I feel it has raised some interesting arguments and put into words some things I felt, but couldn't articulate. It documents James Woudhuysen's comments at the BIFM annual conference 2008; "sustainability is all about guilt and pessimism, innovation has taken a back seat". The government talk about global warming and carbon neutrality, I have a friend who is a geologist, and when we talk about climate change, he maintains that tectonic plates cause tsunami's and earthquakes, NOT global warming. I feel sometimes that the public has been whipped into a state of frenzy by some clever 'spin', surely we should be thinking along the lines of balance, moving forward using the tools we already have except that we are incorporating sustainability into our way of thinking as we go - not regressing to a more basic way of living as James Woudhuysen put it, using "one hamster wheel trundling out enough energy to power one lightbulb"!!