Sustainable System: Revisiting the Limits to Growth and Environmental Impact Assessment

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SUSTEINSBLE SYSTEMS
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Table of Contents

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Revisiting the Limits to Growth After Peak Oil 3
Ways which Australia is tackling “Limits Of Growth” 4
Environmental Impact Assessment process In QLD and NSW 6
Drawbacks of the proposed Project. 8
Project approval success 8
Importance of public participation EIA 9
Environment Impact assessment 10
Methanol factory Proposal 10
Screening 12
Scoping 12
Conduct a preliminary study 13
Impact prediction 13
Impact assessment 13
Mitigation 13
Producing EIS 14
Reviewing EIS 15
Follow up 16
Reduced Package 16
Conclusion 18
References
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Table 1comparison of QLD and NSW application steps for EIA project approval

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Abstract
A sustainable system is the one which can support itself effectively and cannot collapse. An
effective ecosystem is capable of supporting itself. Even every country needs to sustain itself, in
order to be called a sustainable system. A nation with sustainable system is with the resources
which can support its citizen population growth without fear of exhaustion. If the system is not
sustainable it will endanger its dependents.
Introduction

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1. Revisiting the Limits to Growth After Peak Oil
It seems that we are approaching the “Limits to Growth,” as predicted in the book by the similar
title in 1972. The book exhibited the impacts of a steadily rising population of the world and
limited resource provisions. (Kanninen, 2013)A wide variety of circumstances were tested, but the
impact in almost all situations was overextend as well downfall, with the collapse of timing
classically existence in the 2072. (Heinberg, 2010)
Nevertheless if the economic development could require some kind of natural resources such as
oil ,or coal, or copper, or water in production of goods as well as the services, this can lead to a
time when the resources required for economic growth, will be exhausted especially the ones
used as fuel such as coal and oil. (Gornitz, 2013)
Furthermore, the steady increase of pollution, can lead to economic growth interference. As the
population is increasing, the resources keep dwindling day by day, the rise of pollution also
becomes an issue.
Logically, in the future at some point nations may enter into limits which cannot allow them to
come out due to resource for development exhaustion. (Harold J. Barnett, 2013) One of such limits
can be insufficient funds for investments and development in resources extraction. This due to
the declining investment returns (Anders Wijkman, 2012)
1.1. Ways which Australia is tackling “Limits Of Growth”
Australia as a nation has tried to tackle the future impeding crisis of resources depletion that may
lead to economic crisis by put this measures in place: (Robert C. Townsend, 2011) (Bardi, 2011)
(Turner, 2008)