The BBC was immediately put on notice that he would consider radical changes to the licence fee.
The FA has periodically considered radical changes to the FA Cup format but claimed last season that more subtle moves, including the controversial decision to kick off the final at 5.15pm, had helped reinvigorate it.
Unless a serious effort is made to educate the public of the "facts" that face our planet in terms of environmental degradation and the need to consider radical changes in our life styles and the way we use our resources, this planet will rapidly run out of the '"stuff" needed to sustain human life.
Burns, the architect of a far-reaching review of the BBC during the last renewal period in 2003, says it is "not unreasonable" to consider radical change, yet the process has been "clumsy".
The chancellor, George Osborne, is reported to be considering making radical changes to pensions that could be announced as soon as this month in his budget statement.
After that, rely on rampant cost inflation and the threat of fiscal collapse to force Congress to consider more radical changes.
The governor also suggested that the scandals presented the opportunity to consider more radical changes, like having a full-time legislature that does not permit outside employment.
"We need to consider more radical changes in the food system to meet these ambitious goals," says her co-author, Pete Smith, a soils and global change researcher at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom.
"We are recommending that the government consider some radical changes, like online voting, holding elections at the weekend and letting voters register to vote on election day, because we believe a serious problem needs serious answers," Graham Allen, the Labour MP who heads the committee, said.
