Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Director of the World Land Use Survey, known for mapping global land use and writing books on land resources.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:17What have you observed about the dangers of using chemicals and fertilizers in agriculture?
Uh
Presenter asks
2:10What about the wastage of land, marshes, forests, and reclamation of land from the sea? Is that being given attention to?
Uh yes, well in one of my books, uh Our Developing World, uh I do attempt to show that there's probably four times as much land available for proper use or cultivation than that which we are using at the present. So there's a great possibility of expansion in area as well as an expansion in intensity of use. Great possibilities for the scientists.
Presenter asks
2:40You've expressed concern that our methods of trawling are one day going to empty the oceans of fish.
Well, you know, when we go to sea we're still in the Stone Age. We go out hunting. And just depends whether we're lucky or not as to what supply we get. There's no doubt in my mind that in the near future we shall be cultivating the sea. That is to say, we'd probably be breeding fish and then putting them in the sea in suitable places, then catching them perhaps in controlled areas when they are ready. There's a need for great international collaboration in this work of rarely husbanding properly the resources of the sea.
“Oh yes, yes.”
“We use land reasonably sensibly or not.”
“We risk”
“Uh yes, well in one of my books, uh Our Developing World, uh I do attempt to show that there's probably four times as much land available for proper use or cultivation than that which we are using at the present. So there's a great possibility of expansion in area as well as an expansion in intensity of use. Great possibilities for the scientists.”
“Well, you know, when we go to sea we're still in the Stone Age. We go out hunting. And just depends whether we're lucky or not as to what supply we get. There's no doubt in my mind that in the near future we shall be cultivating the sea. That is to say, we'd probably be breeding fish and then putting them in the sea in suitable places, then catching them perhaps in controlled areas when they are ready. There's a need for great international collaboration in this work of rarely husbanding properly the resources of the sea.”