New aluminium smelter
Sir, — The widespread doubts and fears concerning the new aluminium smelter warrant exposure of the whole, drift ,of this country on to the rocks of overdevelopment. In 1979 the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, produced a frightening transcript, defining ov e r-development. Every New Zealand politician and union leader should read it and tremble. We have been propagandised to equate progress with high energy, hard technology, and massive export drives. It is an evil myth that we need to export a lot to maintain a good quality of life. By policies that favour small-scale, internal, localised enterprises we could defeat unemployment and be largely self-suf-ficient. Yet we seem hypnotised to follow not -humane, national and democratic aims, but the aims for - this country of the international “jet-set” elite, .who deceptively dangle their glittering life-styles before us. New Zealand needs , its own Ayatollah, preferably Christian and a shade less fanatical. — Yours, etc., B. P. LILBURN. August 11, 1980.
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