World Population (1972)

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Description: Condenses 200 years of world population growth with statistical accuracy and stresses the importance of population control as fundamental to the solution of environmental crisis. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.

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foreign [Music] our environment is the Earth now the Earth is finite its capacities to provide space reduce food to supply energy all are restricted we depend upon these limited resources for survival yet we persist in increasing our population as if they were infinite this fundamental dilemma is our most critical environmental problem [Music] on this map a condensed history of world population will be displayed beginning with the year 1ad population growth will be recorded to the present and then be projected to the year 2000. population totals and locations are indicated by white dots Each of which represents one million persons [Music] foreign growth rates our population doubles every 35 years yet the earth and its resources are limited this dilemma is fundamental to the environmental crisis each of us by controlling population growth can contribute to its solution [Music] [Music]

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