Survival of Spaceship Earth

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.

Cast

Raymond Burr

Self - Narrator

Hugh Downs

Self - Narrator / Host

Rene Dubos

Writer

Margaret Mead

Self

Walter Orr Robert

Self

John D. Rockefeller III

Self