Dear Wiz..the world will change willing or not.
This rate of consumption of the planet reserves is unstainable. Global warming is a fact. Million of square meter of ice on polar caps has already melted and 2010 has had the second highest temperature average since 1880.
I believe you are from Australia... look what happen in Queensland.
The only way is to cut eccess and the only solution is social ( less disequality, more education) technological ( alternative energies and more specifically alternative fuel for aviation) and economical ( excess of freedom in markets will bring mankind to self extinction). Emergering country should start thinking of controlling demographic growth and to increases wages and and rights to boost internal consumption instead of flooding the markest with cheap products.
UAE is an absurd mix of first and third world with the highest procapita green house emission on the planet. Sorry but the solution is less billionairs around.
Rockfeller that for sure is not a socialist is spending a huge amount of his wealth along with many other capitalist to curb demographic growth in emerging countries. Does this rings a bell?