Discussion

PROFESSOR M. W. THRING, Fellowship of Engineering There are two ways of looking to the future: one can extrapolate present trends or look at the conditions for a stable world where everyone has a good quality of life. The Industrial Revolution was based largely on cheap fuel and the exploitation of colonies as sources of raw materials. I query the belief of the Author of Paper 9 in export crops. I believe that as fuels get more expensive villages will export the necessary food to the local town and grow their own. I believe that in equilibrium engineering there will be no private cars in towns and probably no cars at all. I would like to ask the Author of Paper 12 about the problem of people migrating into slums. Would electric light,, television and jobs in the village reduce this?