england put out west the cloud will thicken quickly. a few patches of rain across england and wales but not amounting to too much, whereas for northern ireland and scotland it turns wet and windy through the afternoon. all the while the south westerly winds bring mild air, south westerly winds bring mild air, so temperature is about 11 14. it gets very windy tomorrow night with gales and maybe even severe gales across the far north west of the country as a band of rain sweeps through followed by the showers. friday, blustery day in scotland with the showers rattling through on the strong winds. further southwards, a brighter, sunnier kind of day for most of you. and in the sunshine with the wind is coming up from the south west is, mild with temperatures widely into double figures across england and wales, eight and nine in scotland and northern ireland. this band of rain from that area of low pressure that i showed you a moment ago that is currently no canada brings a band o
Of the revolution in chemical engineering. along the way, a lot of the chemicals that we synthesised, it turns out, are persistent and carcinogenic, and sit in the environment. now, what was the cost, and what was the benefit? that is a very hard thing to quantify, but the same is true in our industrialisation of food systems. we have an abundance of calories, we have, you know, enough calorie production in the next decade, theoretically, to meet the needs of nine billion humans. but a lot of those systems have their downfalls, have their costs, have their consequences. so, the arc of technology is and has never been linear. it has always had, you know, some cycle to it. i would argue that the recent cycle probably peaked in 1969. that was when man landed on the moon, and it was also the year that we had woodstock. and so, right now, i think from a societal perspective, we re generally techno pessimists. and we were really techno optimists leading up to the moon landing and during the
Have their costs, have their consequences. so, the arc of technology is and has never been linear. it has always had, you know, some cycle to it. i would argue that the recent cycle probably peaked in 1969. that was when man landed on the moon, and it was also the year that we had woodstock. and so, right now, i think from a societal perspective, we re generally techno pessimists. and we were really techno optimists leading up to the moon landing and during the industrial revolution. and now, we re seeing the consequences in the last couple of days that are really overwhelming. yeah, you call it techno pessimism it may be techno realism. i mean, there is no doubt that climate change and global warming are real, and they are a real threat to the way we live our lives today, and frankly, for the future of our species on the planet. now, you say this, you say that, we do not have to make compromises as we re engineer life. the ability to re engineer our systems of production doesn
We have an abundance of calories, we have, you know, enough calorie production in the next decade, theoretically, to meet the needs of nine billion humans. but a lot of those systems have their downfalls, have their costs, have their consequences. so, the arc of technology is and has never been linear. it has always had, you know, some cycle to it. i would argue that the recent cycle probably peaked in 1969. that was when man landed on the moon, and it was also the year that we had woodstock. and so, right now, i think from a societal perspective, we re generally techno pessimists. and we were really techno optimists leading up to the moon landing and during the industrial revolution. and now, we re seeing the consequences in the last couple of days that are really overwhelming. yeah, you call it techno pessimism it may be techno realism. i mean, there is no doubt that climate change and global warming are real,
Enough calorie production in the next decade, theoretically, to meet the needs of nine billion humans. but a lot of those systems have their downfalls, have their costs, have their consequences. so, the arc of technology is and has never been linear. it has always had, you know, some cycle to it. i would argue that the recent cycle probably peaked in 1969. that was when man landed on the moon, and it was also the year that we had woodstock. and so, right now, i think from a societal perspective, we re generally techno pessimists. and we were really techno optimists leading up to the moon landing and during the industrial revolution. and now, we re seeing the consequences in the last couple of days that are really overwhelming. yeah, you call it techno pessimism it may be techno realism. i mean, there is no doubt that climate change and global warming are real, and they are a real threat to the way we live our lives today, and frankly, for the future of our