Survival of Spaceship Earth (1972)

Survival of Spaceship Earth

1972

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Dirk Wayne Summers

Cast

Hugh Downs as Self - Narrator / Host

John D. Rockefeller III as Self

Margaret Mead as Self

Raymond Burr as Self - Narrator

Rene Dubos as Writer

Walter Orr Robert as Self

Crew

Richard Wayne Summers (Assistant Director)