In search of sustainability

2 Bay Street, Burnie, TAS. Nick J Towle, MB BS(Hons), BMedSc, Intern. Reprints will not be available from the author. Correspondence: Dr Nick J Towle, 2 Bay Street, Burnie, TAS 7320. nj_towle@iinet.net.au The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 7 June 2004 180 11 556-557 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2004 www.mja.com.au Conference Report dedicated to a particular theme, and a keynote paper an several related discussion papers formed the basis for a Internet debate on each theme (www.isosconference.org.au) The nine themes were water, human health and wellbeing land use and natural ecosystems, energy, equity and peace economic systems, climate, labour force and work, an The ultimate consequence of failing to live sustainably is that we push our own species to extinction