How to Save the Earth: Handle with Care

"How to Save the Earth" is a series of six television programmes that go beyond the usual 'doom and gloom' about the state of the Earth today. By concentrating on the life and work of twelve 'green warriors', each programme demonstrates that answers exist to the problems we now face.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:26:14
• Production Date: 1 January 1992
• Asset Language: English
• Subject Topical: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH HAZARDS; POLLUTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT
• Geographic Subject: NORWAY; UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: 1985348
• Parent Id: 839587

Description

Our post-War obsession with economic growth at all costs has generated many benefits for a small proportion of humankind. But the costs are escalating all the time: to our communities, to the Earth's life-support systems, and to the human spirit. Directly challenging the 'growthist' consensus is an essential responsibility of the modern Environment Movement. Jorunn Eikjok is a researcher at the Nordic Sami Institute in Norway. Since the early 1980's, she has taken an active part in the Sami political and cultural movement. The world first became aware of Lois Gibbs when she spearheaded a campaign in the late 1970's to save her neighbourhood from a leaking chemical dump at Love Canal near Niagara Falls.

• Scripts: File; DOC HTSTE 04 HANDLE WITH CARE 1992 SCRIPT EN 01 JAN 92.pdf (541.92 KB); File; DOC HTSTE 01-06 840 EN 1992 SYNOPSIS.pdf (129.51 KB)