businessasusual could also be financially challenging with a significant share of gdp being spent on fuel imports putting pressure on foreign currency reserves and facing high opportunity costs of financing other development priorities such as education and providing health services it could also result in unsustainable use of natural resources such as fuel wood in being locked into outdated technologies and in losing an increasing share of gdp to fuel imports because of future projected economic growth clearly a new way needs to be found if the needed growth is not to be accompanied by and ultimately undermined by resource scarcity high costs of environmental damage and accompanying costs in human health and erosion of development progress