Four documentary programmes by GERALD LEACH
3: Avoiding Actions
The first two programmes were about the unpleasant surprises from technology's impact on nature: pesticide build-up: over-productive streams as fertilisers run off the fields: or our own resistance to antibiotics like penicillin. All these are with us now, but already we are engineering for ourselves the next generation of problems. Somehow the biologists must forecast what they will be. And this is probably easier than persuading governments to listen to this biological voice-and take avoiding action.
Prepared from conversations recorded with DR. JOHN KENDREW F.R.S. , DR. PALMER NEWBOULD
PROFESSOR J. W. S. PRINGLE, F.R.S.
PROFESSOR JOHN MAYNARD SMITH
PROFESSOR W. H. THORPE. F.R.S. PROFESSOR C. H. WADDINGTON, F.R.S.
Produced by Mick Rhodes
Second broadcast
Dreams and Goals: August 17