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ajiss-281	Elahee, Mohammad Khalil	Energy Management, Sustainability, and Ethics: An Islamic Perspective	2014.0	27	.pdf	application/pdf	11666	551	51	However, since the 1980s Australia, Europe, and Japan in par- ticular have recognized the need to substitute scarce, polluting, and expensive energy with renewable sources or even nuclear power.12 Here again, it is quite possible that the ultimate aim has not been to reduce energy consumption in absolute terms. Before assessing the ethical nature of the latter, one must ask whether energy consumption should Elahee: Energy Management, Sustainability, and Ethics 75 ajiss31-4_ajiss 9/26/2014 2:45 PM Page 75 be increasing or decreasing in absolute terms.	cache/ajiss-281.pdf	txt/ajiss-281.txt