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energiseme

To keep your post in a MEL context I know by way of example you are referring to the greens zealous efforts to stop CSG in the NSW Northern Rivers area and you are most definitley referring to the BoF LIB NSW govt and their inexpliable energy and development policies for NSW.

I was just about to post some not unrelated thoughts on new thread, but will post them here instead.

Sustainability imo is a poorly understood concept and is misused destructively by the Greens.

A population/community/group that lives a simple clean life but disappears over time through dwindling numbers cannot be regarded as sustainable. To me this is the flaw of the Green dream.

I recently visited a commune in the Nimbin area. It was established with overflowing idealism in the 70's, flourished in the 80's and these days is a sad, lonely testament either to flawed ideals or ideals that were not inter-generational. The kids have gone and many of the houses are returning to the bush, vacant and barely visible in the under and over growth.

When the Greens argue that the Northern Rivers should be CSG free, it really means the Greens of child bearing/rearing years say it should be so ... whether their children as they approach and enter adulthood will agree with them remains to be seen.

Last week as I flew out of Lismore I grabbed a copy of "The Echo" to read on the plane ... it was cover to cover with what enegiseme now informs us is signature leftism ... emotional, negativity, anger, deep felt unhappiness and rallying against the status quo ... it was a depressing read.

In the same paper the local council extolled how they had really clamped down on residential and other development in the region in recent years and that the population (in a town of 27,000 I think) had only grown by 112 in the past year.

If that green, supposedly sustainable trend continues, demographics will swamp Lismore, Casino, Kyogle and the Northern Rivers region over the next 2-3 decades as children drift away though lack of local opportunity and their parents stay to live out their green dreams as an aging, dying and unsustainable population.

I'd argue that to be truly sustainable, idealism needs to be sustainable within the populaton that seeks it ... idealists will struggle with this concept but pragmatists won't imo.

Imo there is no long term sustainability in the Northern Rivers remaining vital only for 3-4 dairy groups, the cattle industry, and some very localised horticulture ... the ambience might be peaceful and serene and the views may be pastoral but the future, the truthful unpalatable future is grim due to an enevitable declining and aging of an unsustainable population.

To be truly sustainable there has to be a future for children of the region in a modern, relevant world ... with the right community mindset and skills, those children could be part of a symbiotic relationship between a an urban/rural lifestyle and a cleaner, greener energy sufficient future ... a regional transport CNG hub, a regional technology park made possible through a balance of work/lifestyle/energy/green ideal.

It is essential for true sustainability imo.

Dex