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  **Recommendation: the inquiry examine the role of the monetary system in promoting excessive resource consumption, as opposed to technological and societal improvements.**
  
  ==== Geopolitical implications ====
  
+ === International oil depletion protocol ===
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+ World-wide oil dependence is afflicted by “the tragedy of the commons” wherein prior to the Peak there is no incentive to curtail consumption for fear that rival nations will gain advantage by consuming what we forego.
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+ The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) has proposed an international oil depletion protocol known as the “Rimini Protocol” or the “Uppsala Protocol”. Participating oil producing nations would voluntarily reduce production to match their depletion rate. Participating oil consuming nations would reduce their imports at the world oil depletion rate. The objective is to minimise international upheaval by cooperatively managing the oil price while encouraging conservation (Heinberg, 2005) The alternative could be war and economic collapse on an unprecedented scale. At the very least it would combat the view that Australia can go it alone, squandering its own gas and oil resources while the rest of the world fights amongst itself.
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+ **Recommendation: the Commonwealth should help initiate international negotiations toward an oil depletion protocol.**
  
  === International competition for Australia's energy reserves ===
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  === Antarctica ===
  
  
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  If people live near where they want to be -- for work, school, shopping, church and friends -- there is less need for them to travel. If people have the land and the skills and the willingness, they can grow their own food, reducing the need for transport (of food) and travel (for shopping). If neighbourhoods become communities, there can be exchange of food, clothing, skills, services, further reducing dependence on oil (VTPI)
  
  ==== Rail ====
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