Future conditional [videorecording] / NIEHS, NSF ; producer, Marilyn Weiner ; director-writer, Hal Weiner ; a Screenscope production in association with South Carolina ETV.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Screenscope,
Copyright Date:
c2005
Description:
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Videorecording of a program previously broadcast on Public Television. Copyright dates: on credits, 2004; on disc label, 2004; on container, 2005. Narrator, Matt Damon.
Summary:
Investigates the link between environmental change and the future health of the planet, a future conditional on how we cope with the spread of toxic pollution. In the Arctic, animals and humans are suddenly plagued with rising levels of hazardous chemicals: DDT, PCBs, dioxins, and mercury. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, tariff-free factories have been poisoning the soil and air for more than a decade, and local communities in Tijuana struggle with contaminated water while their backyards have become toxic playgrounds for children. In Uzbekistan, the world's fourth largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea, has become the site of what the United Nations calls man's greatest ecological disaster. In the United States, a Latin neighborhood in San Diego celebrates an environmental victory, while only 150 miles away, the people of Palm Springs may be living in the path of a toxic storm of dust.
Series:
Journey to planet Earth. Season three
OCLC:
(OCoLC)56931299
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)
OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)
HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)
PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.