The More You Go On, The Less

This Last Chapter .. May Have Given The Impression That Somehow Man Is The Ultimate Triumph Of Evolution, That All These Millions Of Years Of Development Have Had No Purpose Other Than To Put Him On Earth. There Is No Scientific Evidence Whatever To Support Such A View And No Reason To Suppose That Our Stay Here Will Be Any More Permanent Than That Of The Dinosaur.

If We Were All To Reduce Our Demands For Energy, It Would Make An Enormous Amount Of Difference.

Television Of Course Actually Started In Britain In 1936, And It Was A Monopoly, And There Was Only One Broadcaster And It Operated On A License Which Is Not The Same As A Government Grant.

We Keep Putting On Programmes About Famine In Ethiopia; That’s What’s Happening. Too Many People There. They Can’t Support Themselves — And It’s Not An Inhuman Thing To Say. It’s The Case. Until Humanity Manages To Sort Itself Out And Get A Coordinated View About The Planet It’s Going To Get Worse And Worse.

All We Can Hope For Is That The Thing Is Going To Slowly And Imperceptibly Shift. All I Can Say Is That 50 Years Ago There Were No Such Thing As Environmental Policies.