lakes in adjacent rainy areas (Sahara, from the Congo; 

 Australian Desert, from the Northern Territory); the use 

 of underground nuclear explosions to construct large dams 

 for water storage; the use of small portable nuclear reactors 

 for electric power generation needed in the clearing of 

 large forests; the employment of diesel-engined earth-mov- 

 ing equipment in building roads; and the full support of 

 the reclamation teams by appropriate health measures. 

 These huge rain forest and desert reclamation schemes 

 would be well suited to being carried out by military per- 

 sonnel, which would no longer be needed to bear arms 

 once a world government were in existence. When the 

 project areas had been brought to a suitable state for 

 agriculture, land could be offered to individuals from 

 overpopulated countries for permanent settlement. 



The production of food, both from the land and from 

 the sea, must be advanced everywhere with the help of 

 the latest methods of cultivation. Agriculture can be great- 

 ly improved in the backward countries by the use of ma- 

 chinery (e.g. China has at present only about 10% of its 

 agricultural land under mechanized cultivation). Similarly, 

 the collection of fish (and perhaps plankton) from the 

 oceans should be based entirely on adequate research 

 regarding the distribution of sea organisms, combined with 

 electronic detection devices used in large ocean-going 

 fishing vessels (c. 1,000 tons). The artificial breeding of 

 fish to the free-swimming stage should be carried out in 

 coast sea-water lakes, from which the young fish would 

 be transferred to their natural habitats by special vessels. 



The basic foodstuffs needed by every person for correct 

 nutrition should be made available in all countries by the 

 transport of food from regions of surplus to those of deficit. 

 Similarly, the primary minerals (iron, copper, aluminum, 



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