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Prince Philip says engineers are key to global population solutions | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
It will be up to engineers to find solutions to the problems posed by the world's growing human population, the Duke of Edinburgh has told the BBC. | It will be up to engineers to find solutions to the problems posed by the world's growing human population, the Duke of Edinburgh has told the BBC. |
The duke told Radio 4's Today programme that "everything that wasn't invented by God was invented by an engineer". | The duke told Radio 4's Today programme that "everything that wasn't invented by God was invented by an engineer". |
He was discussing the merits of British engineering with Today's guest editor, former BP chief executive Lord Browne. | He was discussing the merits of British engineering with Today's guest editor, former BP chief executive Lord Browne. |
Prince Philip said engineering had contributed to the post-war recovery and would help solve future problems. | Prince Philip said engineering had contributed to the post-war recovery and would help solve future problems. |
'Completely skint' | 'Completely skint' |
In the interview, the duke said his interest in the subject began when he was a naval officer "surrounded by engineering" on warships. | |
After World War Two, he said, "we were completely skint, seriously badly damaged and the only way we were going to recover a sort of viability was through engineering". | |
In 1976 Prince Philip initiated the Fellowship of Engineering, now the Royal Academy of Engineering, which promotes excellence and education in the field. | |
Asked about the future, the duke said: "The human population of the world is growing and is occupying more space, and it has got to be accommodated somehow or other. | |
"What I think most people would like to see is that it accommodates a certain amount of the natural world as well as the human world and everything that we require to keep it going. | |
"But somehow or other that balance to try and fit as many people on to this globe as comfortably as possible without them doing too much damage - I think ultimately it's going to be engineers who are going to decide that." | |
'Jealousy and anxiety' | |
He also said it was "curious" that there was no Nobel Prize for engineering. | |
He suggested it may be because of a historical divide between scientists and engineers. | |
There was "a certain amount of jealousy and a certain amount of anxiety" as to who was "better", he said. | |
Lord Browne, who is chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation, said he wanted the £1m award to be seen as a Nobel-style prize for engineering. |
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