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However, to run the farm of
tomorrow requires more than beast or muscle. You need the atom.
One of the forgotten promises of
the nascent Atomic Age was that the incredibly cheap, limitless power
of the atom would revolutionise farming by irrigating vast areas of
desert until the Sahara became a second Eden, Death Valley rivaled
the great prairie states and the Gobi desert turned green and
abolished the threat of famine from Asia for all time
Furthermore, radioactive
isotopes would play their part by introducing radioactive tracers to
enhance agricultural science and the development of artificial
atomic mutation to produce new crops.
Score: Zero for the atomic
irrigation, plus ten for the isotopes, and minus several million for
the mutants-- if you count Peter Graves's tiny error in judgment. |
