This should be pretty obvious, but it seems it is not.
A few years back I read an article about the discovery of a monstrous fishery off the coast of Australia. Commercial fishing jumped on it, consuming until the fishery was imperiled. When questioned, they said they thought they really had found a sustainable fishery.
There is no such thing as a sustainable resource.
There are only sustainable practices.
I'm not sure why this should need explanation. Resources are finite; if they are not treated with care then they can be overused. Even wind energy isn't properly sustainable, though it is lauded as the future of sustainable energy.(check out Power Hungry by Robert Brice for more on the problems with wind energy). This is because, no matter how much energy we have, we will never have enough if we always crave more.
The only way to have a sustainable resource is to adapt our behavior to sustain that resource.
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