World in the Balance: The Population Paradox (Widescreen)
FEATURES & DETAILS:
- Copyright: 2004
- Language: English
- Closed-Captioned
- Color, Live Action
- MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available
- Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
- Features: Chapter Select, Interactive Menu, Materials & Activities For Educators, Web Links,
- Technical: Single Layer, Single Sided
- DVD Region: ALL
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PRODUCT SUMMARY
This NOVA program looks at population trends over the course of history, location and time. Viewers will learn how it took all of human history until 1800 for the world's population to reach its first billion. Now, a new billion is added nearly every dozen years. Over the next half-century, 98 percent of that growth will take place in the planet's poorest regions, and as the global total swells to nearly nine billion by 2050, the social and environmental strains will be enormous. In Japan, Europe and Russia, birth rates are shrinking and the population is aging. But in parts of India and Africa, more than half of the still-growing population is under 25. The surprising conclusion: World population is now careening in two dramatically different directions. In the second part of the program, China Revs Up is an insider's look at the country's booming economy and its growing impact on the environment. Viewers will learn how decisions made now will change the fate of all people over the next 50 years.
This program contains a Described Video for the Visually Impaired track.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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...Highly recommended. Editor's Choice."- Video Librarian (Nov/Dec 2004)"This timely, well-scripted, and visually stunning program examines worldwide problems. Classes across the curriculum can utilize it to gain a broader perspective of today's human family."- School Library Journal (Feb 2005)