VHS
Do we really want to live this way? [videorecording] / produced by the WGBH Science Unit in association with Chedd-Angier, Film Australia, the University Grants Commission of India, Gujarat University, EMRC.
Summary:
Tells how freeways, shopping malls, and industrial and technological wealth have been the rewards of modern society. Examines the price of progress, including smog, toxic wastes, and contamination of once-pristine waters, all by-products of Western industrial life-styles.
Record details
- ISBN: 1559463295 (series)
- ISBN: 9781559463294 (series)
- Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
- Publisher: S. Burlington, VT : Annenberb/CPB Collection, c1990.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Originally shown on PBS.Series concept based on the Worldwatch Institute's State of the world reports.Major funding provided by the Annenberg/CPB project.
- Creation/Production Credits Note:
- Written, produced and directed by Marty Ostrow ; editor, Eric Neudel ; animation and graphics, Jed Schwartz ; executive producer, John Angier.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Host, Meryl Streep ; narrator, Roy Scheider.
- Target Audience Note:
- College students and adults.
- System Details Note:
- VHS format.
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- Subject:
- Industries > Environmental aspects.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Pollution.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Air > Pollution > California > Los Angeles.
Water > Pollution > Rhine River.
Human ecology.
Environmental policy.
Films for the hearing impaired.