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Recently Howard Pack has argued that countries could make significant gains at the macro-level ip terms of employment, out put, and saving, by policies leading to adoption of the most appropriate techniques in existence.
Labour intensive techniques is only economic way in the small scale industries; where growth of labour standard in possible and it leads toward equality.
Agricultural development through augmentation of irrigaeion, diversification of croping pattern, introducing the agricultural research, improved farming techniques should sometimes be guiding principles for diminisbing the poverty.
From the Himalayan heights of materialistic comforts and belief we are being lead to the bottomless depth of all round environmental pollution, ecological devastation, ozone depletion, green house effect, creating waves of shock in all living men.
Our disposition towards science, technology, industry goods, extraordinary arrangements of consumer goods, skillful technological devices which gives us unemployment, homelessness, ignorance, discase, crime and wrong doing, we get from vast specialized development institution, have afficted us since the early time, which should be eliminated for ever.
Development not for creating a wild-society. where need more policemen, jail, bulletproof cars, and armed force for high crime rate, but achieve goals by which we constitute a higher precedence.
The benefit of material technical and institutional development must be the means of maximizing whole and of best promoting human welfare. Economical progress must be substituted ecologism. The conception must be done to fulflled not a single but for all.
Educational system should be reformed and it would also a required to assure the general adoption of global-view, which become considerably more decentralized.
The main intensive implementation of our plan to developing the appropriate technology. Which latter helps for decentralized living. The scale of production process and producing goods which are not suitable for the natural environment must be reduced. We need self-control social system, where reducing of technological progress, activities are possible and it helps to make up the real world.
According to D.D. Malvania : "Science has made great progress in achieving the human comforts, no doubt, but the human community has become greedy and violent. The invention of the atom bomb in the hand of
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