How to Save the Earth: How Much is Enough?

"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: 00:26:09
• Production Date: 1 January 1992
• Asset Language: English
• Subject Topical: CONSUMER GOODS; FAMILY PLANNING; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE
• Geographic Subject: MEXICO
• MAMS Id: 1985351
• Parent Id: 839552

Description

The fate of the Earth depends on a simple equation: the number of people multiplied by average per capita consumption. Whilst population soars in the South, consumption increases exponentially in the North. Limits have to be found to both these destructive processes so that people both North and South are reconciled to the natural carrying capacity of Planet Earth. Vicki Robin is President of the New Road Map Foundation in the USA, an educational, non-profit corporation that helps to fund initiatives enabling people 'to live more simply, that others may simply live'. Carmen Leyte is one of Mexfam's Family Planning Advisors who works with the young in some of the poorest 'barrios' in Mexico City

• Scripts: File; DOC HTSTE 01 TAKING THE WATERS 1992 EN 838 SCRIPT 01 JAN 92.pdf (526.7 KB); File; DOC HTSTE 01-06 1992 EN 838 SYNOPSIS.pdf (129.51 KB)