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TURNING THE TIDE


7 Video Programs 26 minutes each /Grades 7-Adult

Produced by George Courtice for Tyne Tees Television / With
David Bellamy

TURNING THE TIDE, hosted by British scientist David Bellamy, is
a series of seven video programs on the major environmental issues
facing our planet. Putting impending crises on the table in an
entertaining, humorous manner, David Bellamy makes the issues less
terrifying, accessible to everybody, and maybe even redeemable.
David Bellamy says, "The environmental problems are our own
personal problems and the solution is in our own hands."

"But we have to turn the tide pretty quickly. We share the world
with5 million species of plants and animals. We are dependent on
the organisms yet we are destroying 60 acres a day."With Study
Guides by Louis Iozzi

Subtitle: 1. The Chips are Down

In the first of this seven part series, David Bellamy exposes
the failings of policy makers to take account of the environmental
consequences of their decisions.

Subtitle: 2. Running Out of Steam

Ebullient David Bellamy tackles the global energy crisis, and
asks who really benefits from present policies?

Subtitle: 3. Growing Pains

Why is there hunger in a world that already grows more than
enough to feed everyone? It's grown in the wrong place, in the
wrong way and sold at the wrong price to guarantee that everyone
has enough to eat.

Subtitle: 4. Into Deep Water

David Bellamy looks at why clean drinking water is becoming a
scarce commodity even in the richest countries.

Subtitle: 5. The Great Gene Robbery

David Bellamy turns his attention to the worldwide loss of
genetic diversity. At current rates, within a hundred years one
third of all the globe's species will be driven to extinction.In
the Andes, David Bellamy finds that the potato's wild relatives
are threatened. No amount of genetic engineering can protect food
crops without genetic diversity.

Subtitle: 6. No Dam Good

Big dams are often the favorite projects of developing
countries and the banks that fund them. But to David Bellamy, they
symbolize the arrogance with which we assault the natural world
with our notions that size and expensive technology can solve our
economic and social problems. Bellamy urges everyone to ask, "Who
profits now, and who pays later?"

Subtitle: 7. Bright Green

Current political structures rarely depart from the view that
these problems can be solved by more output, and greater
industrial growth. Environmentalists have challenged the very
basis of this kind of thinking. David Bellamy puts them on trial
to see what solutions to hunger, unemployment, and environmental
destruction they have to offer future generations.

Subject Areas: STS, SOCIAL STUDIES, ENVIRONMENT, GLOBAL STUDIES,
GLOBAL STUDIES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ENERGY, HUNGER,
POPULATION, RESOURCES, GENETIC DIVERSITY, ENVIRONMENTALISM

Series of seven programs ISBN:1-56029-133-8

With purchase of the series, we include the companion volume
"Turning the Tide: Exploring the Options for Life on Earth" by
David Bellamy and Brendan Quayle.


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