Until Humanity Manages To Sort Itself Out

It Was Regarded As A Responsibility Of The Bbc To Provide Programs Which Have A Broad Spectrum Of Interest, And If There Was A Hole In That Spectrum, Then The Bbc Would Fill It.

I Would Be Absolutely Astounded If Population Growth And Industrialisation And All The Stuff We Are Pumping Into The Atmosphere Hadn't Changed The Climatic Balance. Of Course It Has. There Is No Valid Argument For Denial.

I Suppose Happiness Is Something One Enjoys, But I Suspect That Happiness Is Not A State But Rather A Transition.

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.

The Savage, Rocky Shores Of Christmas Island, 200 Miles South Of Java, In The Indian Ocean. It's November, The Moon Is In Its Third Quarter, And The Sun Is Just Setting. In A Few Hours From Now, On This Very Shore, A Thousand Million Lives Will Be Launched.