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Vol. XIX, No. 3
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By adopting the strategy of rapid industrialization, human race has dared to believe and act on the belief that the problem of production has been solved, and thereby the problem of poverty, hunger, disease might be overthrown. For the rich countries they say, “the most important task now is 'Education for leisure and for the poor countries, 'Transfer of technology'."9
Men have laboured hard to produce an elaborate physical infrastruture, innumerable types of sophisticated capital equipments, etc., but this is infinitesimal in comparison to the capital provided by nature, Men's attitude towards nature has changed a lot. They seldom talk of a war with it. This has taken place on account of quantitative and qualitative progress, they have attained. Their lust to exploit natural resources has unexpectedly incre. ased. To solve the problem of production, we have started worshiping giganticism. Big production units are being established after conducting a techno-economic survey. No account is paid to the 'bads' of their installations. Schumacher rightly says, “Bigoess is the nemesis of anarchism because from bigness comes impartiality, insensitivity and a lust to concentrate power”.. For him, Small is Beautiful'.
Big industrial units for mass production requires energy in a bulk. To generate energy, fossil fuels are being consumed at an alarming rate as if it were income. The Club of Rome's report says, "Given resources (19 Nonrenevable natural resources), consumption rates and the projccted increase in these rates, the greater majority of the currently important non-renewable resources will be extremely costly 100 years from now”.4 We also know that fuel resources are unevenly distributed. This capital divides the would into "haves" and "have-nots". This presents a conflicting situation before us. The present collision with nature needs to be stopped.
Knowing the speed with which the fossil fuels are depleted, we have been able to develop an alternative
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