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The ONLY way to live sustainable is like the Red Indians and our own Aboriginals to name but two. They survived happily for ten's of thousand years.

The way in which we live in a technologically orientated society is simply not sustainable. By using so called renewable energy and reducing our use of energy somewhat only delays "the day of execution". Sooner or later we will run out of resources to make unnecessary things.

So called recycling only delays our use of resources somewhat. It is not possible to recycle a hundred percent, otherwise you invented perpetulum mobilea. Besides, it requires a large amount of energy to effect that.

Since making technological apparatus also impacts heavily on furtile land and water resources, our food supply is, therefore, also not sustainable. It is straining the obvious to point out that sitting in front of a computer, drive your car or talk on mobile phones is of not much use if you have nothing to eat or drink.

The so called primitive indigenous people were, after all, not so primitive and maybe it is us who are the primitives.

Going back to hunter gatherer or a low impact agricultural way of living is now impossible of course, it is anybody's guess what the future of humanity will be. However, what is certain is that we cannot continue or sustain the way in which we are living now.

All this is based on the assumption that it is important that humanity continues as a species which is only important to us.

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