It seems to me that instead of having policies that encourage our production and consumption, our policies should be focused on resource reduction, the development of new materials and greater momentum to recycling so that the results will be in decreased mining activities, mining wastes, water consumption, pollution, deforestation and erosion. In this respect, in recent years the car industry in
particular has made enormous progress with new materials and in general Canadian industry has made considerable
progress, although not as good as other nations, in achieving energy efficiency in the cons
...[+++]umption of energy per unit of production.