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Human Tide
| Length: | 37 min |
| Released: | 1995 |
| Ages: |
High School College Adult |
This Nature of Things documentary is a sobering look at the explosive growth of world population that threatens to deplete the resources of our planet.Today the population is 5.5 billion, double that of the 1950's. Demographers fear that long before it doubles again, our vital ecosystems will collapse. Human Tide makes dramatically clear that the industrialized world will be as affected as the Third World.
The largest population growth is in the poorest countries. Nafis Sadik of the UN Population Council tells us that two thirds of the world's women do not have access to family planning. This means that disease, famine and poor education are likely to be the destiny of future generations.
Paul Ehrlich, population biologist at Stanford University, urges that the "haves" help the "have nots" survive, while ensuring that the birth rate becomes lower than the death rate. At the present population level we are using up our irreplaceable capital of agricultural soil, fossil ground water and biodiversity. Our fate is likely to be decided in the 1990's.
The largest population growth is in the poorest countries. Nafis Sadik of the UN Population Council tells us that two thirds of the world's women do not have access to family planning. This means that disease, famine and poor education are likely to be the destiny of future generations.
Paul Ehrlich, population biologist at Stanford University, urges that the "haves" help the "have nots" survive, while ensuring that the birth rate becomes lower than the death rate. At the present population level we are using up our irreplaceable capital of agricultural soil, fossil ground water and biodiversity. Our fate is likely to be decided in the 1990's.
Association for Asian Studies, 1995
