Energy policies
Sir, — Patrick Neary may find people who totally rejected machinery in a 19th century fairy tale, but he is unlikely to end such an absurd notion supported by the Values Party. What we do say is that all resources have finite limits. A sustainable economy would work within those limits, while the present exponential growth economy threatens to breach them. Our foreign debt of $2OOO million has been incurred substantially to pay for the escalating prices of imported raw materials, energy and industrial equipment. Importing raw materials for high-energy export industries is a particularly bad course for New Zealand — and aluminium processing is the worst example of all, providing very few jobs in proportion to its extravagant consumption of energy. Values policy is based not on “utopian socialism” but on the inescapable economics of survival, an attractive concept with which even Mr Neary might agree. — Yours, etc.,
BRENT EFFORD February 22, 1977.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19770224.2.96.5
Bibliographic details
Press, 24 February 1977, Page 16
Word Count
154Energy policies Press, 24 February 1977, Page 16
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.