Survival of Spaceship Earth

Survival of Spaceship Earth

60 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1972

Earth's environmental crisis--brought about by uncontrolled technological progress--is endangering life on a global scale. At the core of the threats to the planet - wars, overpopulation, pollution, and the depletion of natural resources - is the inadequacy of the nation state to come to terms with the surmounting problems of twentieth century living. What is urgently needed is the kind of international cooperation where nation states relinquish part of their sovereignty to a world body entrusted with the management of mankind's future.

Survival of Spaceship Earth

60 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1972

Survival of Spaceship Earth
Earth's environmental crisis--brought about by uncontrolled technological progress--is endangering life on a global scale. At the core of the threats to the planet - wars, overpopulation, pollution, and the depletion of natural resources - is the inadequacy of the nation state to come to terms with the surmounting problems of twentieth century living. What is urgently needed is the kind of international cooperation where nation states relinquish part of their sovereignty to a world body entrusted with the management of mankind's future.
Producers Warner Bros. Entertainment
Original title Survival of Spaceship Earth
Directors Richard Wayne Summers, Dirk Wayne Summers
Writers Barbara Ward, John Holdren, Rene Dubos, Dirk Wayne Summers

Cast

Raymond Burr

as Self - Narrator

Hugh Downs

as Self - Narrator / Host

Rene Dubos

as Writer

Margaret Mead

as Self