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Consider the needs, interests, hopes and rights to resources of people several generations in the future. Do these "Seventh Generation" people have any representation in our current decision-making processes? How would you give them a say?

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2009: Why is the price of oil going so high?

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A plateau in production as oil producers struggle to supply an ever growing demand with a finite resource. It is exacerbated by opportunistic commodity speculators.
because demand is so high
beacuse we are buying it.
Two reasons; firstly an imbalance between supply and demand, and secondly speculators buying oil they have no way of using, creating a phantom demand on top of the real demand, in the hope of making a buck. Well, maybe they've now got what was coming to them.
The ratee of supply is static, probably because the global resource has reached peak production and demand continues to increase.

Should the question be "why is oil still so cheap?"

What does sustainability mean to you?

For me Sustainability means that every single being (human and 'non-human') on this planet is able to live in abundance, perpetually and effortlessly without damaging any of the resources or interrelations between them.

Keeping most of the amenities of modern civilisation for at least the next ten years.

It means using resources in such a way that demand does not exceed supply, and that supply can be replenished so as not to jeopardise future generations' needs.

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