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This paper analyzes Qatar’s present and future challenges relating to natural resources and environmental sustainability through the concept of "natural sustainability," defined as the use of natural resources in a way ensuring prosperity for humans and the environment, presently and in the future. By doing so, it proposes an alternative standpoint on sustainable development. By refocusing attention from the economy and growth to the environment and its limits, and from technology and efficiency to institutions, people, and resourcefulness, Qatar and the GCC states might be able to avoid an impending collapse stemming from their fast exacerbating natural unsustainability.