As much as we would all like to move the economy toward renewables, the fact remains, our economy is dependent upon the continues availability offossilfuels for the foreseeable future.
Given the concern over climate change and the looming shortage offossilfuels and uranium which overshadows our industrial future, geoscientists are focusing more on renewable energy these days.
However Mr Harvie said the government still anticipated using fossilfuels for too many future years and within society "values of consumerism still dominate".