Friday, 13 September 2013
Week 4 at SMU started with a great class of TWC. DRIVERS OF WORLD CHANGEProf discussed about how the first industrial revolution went from non-mechanized to
mechanized. The second one will move from energy intensive, non-sustainable to
more sustainable and energy saving technology.“If everyone consumed as much energy as the average
Singaporean and US resident, the world’s oil reserves would be depleted in 9
years". To say that Singapore cannot do anything about this is the
same as saying that US cannot do anything because they only have 5 % of the
population.We then discussed the concept of north and south countries. The north in the 1960s was considered to be all the wealthy
nations, while the south countries were the poorer countries. The northern countries outsourced all the production to the
south ones, while the southern ones undertook more production to move towards
development. This led to major depletion of resources. After the cold war, the first world countries were the
capitalist countries, the second world countries were the communist, pseudo
rich countries, while the third world countries were the ones stuck in the
midst of this, the underdeveloped countries.We also discussed the importance of conserving resources. Once Singapore, and other countries of the world, decide it wants to work on renewable source
of energy, it can undertake that target. The people, the consumers need to
indicate that they want change, they want sustainable energy, only then will
the government and industries decide to move towards this goal.
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