by Dr Frank Fraser Darling
We must stop daydreaming about space, says Dr Fraser Darling, and realise that our problems are here on Earth. Two hundred years of rapid technological change, many believe, have placed the feet of mankind surely on the road to extinction.
If overpopulation and its implosive consequences in famine, pestilence and violence are not to spell the end of homo sapiens, must we not look afresh at sexuality as something existing in its own right unconfused by unwanted reproduction.
But who is to take the responsibility for seeing that man does not become yet another extinct planetary species?
(Repeated: Monday, 7.30 pm Third. This lecture will be printed in The Listener dated 18 December)
A set of copies of The Listener containing the six Lectures may be obtained from 18 Dec from BBC Publications, [address removed], price 8s 6d including postage. The Lectures will be published in book form early in 1970.