In sombre mood, he referred to "spotting debt bubbles" before they burst, "unsustainable spending" and "effects on family budgets (from the crisis) still being felt".
"Those two deficits are enormous and unsustainable, and the effects will be felt in the form of higher interest rates, increased taxes and more realistic living within our means".
Spangenberg highlights that sustainability criteria can be of much help in detecting unsustainable trends and effects, thus identifying unsustainable policy approaches, e.g., policies increasing resource use or societal disparities [11].
To improve understanding at one scale in isolation with constant assumptions of the responses at other scales is likely to lead to unsustainable unintended side effects.
Educating students about the side effects of unsustainable population growth will inspire future generations to take better care of our delicate and finite planet.
What this study does not tackle is the overall long term effect of unsustainable economic growth on our health, safety, and future quality of life - and all indications are that the effect is dramatically negative.
For effective resource policies, drivers for such unsustainable resource use and their effects need to be better understood and mapped.
Although significant research attention has been devoted to the development of diabetes regimens, which demonstrates success in lowering blood glucose levels, their efficacies are unsustainable due to undesirable side effects such as weight gain and hypoglycemia.
For major advanced economies, the financial crisis marked the end of a prolonged period of debt-financed domestic consumption, based on wealth effects derived from unsustainable asset-price overvaluation.
Exclusive sale of TCS/TCC-containing soaps in pharmacies and prescription requirements for TCS in toothpaste may aid in effecting the desirable reduction in unsustainable consumption patterns and with it associated adverse effects.
