World Population

Duration: 4

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Southern Illinois University

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Stresses the growing problem of overpopulation and the importance of population control in solving this environmental crisis. Explains that the resources of the world are finite and yet world population doubles every 35 years. Demonstrates, using a projection map, the rate at which world population has increased and will continue to increase from 1 A.D. to the year 2000., An animated film on the importance of population control as fundamental to the solution of environmental crises, based on statistics for population growth over the past 2,000 years.

Complete Record: Stresses the growing problem of overpopulation and the importance of population control in solving this environmental crisis. Explains that the resources of the world are finite and yet world population doubles every 35 years. Demonstrates, using a projection map, the rate at which world population has increased and will continue to increase from 1 A.D. to the year 2000., An animated film on the importance of population control as fundamental to the solution of environmental crises, based on statistics for population growth over the past 2,000 years. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.