Technology and China
Sir,—Bill Harrison in “Home Line” (January 11) ponders whether with “modern technology... China will have the potential to consume much of the world’s resources.” When world population reaches 8090 million, and if the rate of use of fossil fuel and other resources continues to increase, the demand on world primary energy resources will be more than there is available. To criticise the modern hand barrow as a “time lag that must be bridged by technocrats” suggests that the acceptance of suitable “higher technology,” like the laser, means that all old work methods should be scrapped. The Third World should be encouraged to continue using manual energy where this is appropriate. The Western world may yet have to curtail activities which obviously waste fossil fuel. Simple manual machines based on the lever, the pulley and the screw are still useful, e.g. the bicycle and the hand lawn-mower.—Yours, etc., PATRICK NEARY. January 12, 1986.
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