Name: Growing crops in a Second World War bunker | 7.7 Billion People and Counting - BBC
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T19:15:04.000Z
Duration: 3 min 52 s
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We are like nothing else that's ever lived on this planet

We are highly intelligent, remarkably adaptable,

incredibly inventive, and we're really good when it comes to

And when ever we've been faced with problems in the past,

For many, the answer to our problems lies in new technology.

Hidden 100 feet below the streets of London in an abandoned

World War II bomb shelter, something extraordinary is happening.

This is pretty futuristic when it comes to growing food, isn't it?

the sunflower, the coriander all look remarkably healthy.

to think that food might be grown, isn't it?

A traditional farm might yield several crops a year.

That's good, good to hear. That's what we aim for.

Yeah, except that when I'm eating my salad, I always like to see

There's not going to be any of that down here, is there? Not down here.

Food production here is only on a micro scale.

So do we need to think about bigger solutions

How much more of the world's land surface,

if we ignore the damage it does to biodiversity, could be productive

It's, in a way, the same problem that we have with oil.

We have enough oil to cause yet more catastrophic damage,

so it's not a finite limits issue to quite the same extent.

It's about the damage that we cause by continuing to use it.

We've got a population of a little over seven billion people now.

What's going to happen when we get to ten billion?

Can we bioengineer our way out of this problem

just using the space and the soils that we've got at the moment?

That's one of the biggest sighs... There's no...

That's one of the biggest sighs that we've had making this programme.

I think, I think we have the knowledge to change

It's the, will we do it and can we do it,

and that sense of urgency and that sense of...

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