Gaiam TV Checking the Earth

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  • 2006
  • 1 Season

This series takes a look at how humans are exploiting the Earth. The viewer gets to see the harmful effects that pollution and over fishing the ocean is having on the planet. The viewer will also learn some ways in which they can take action to help the environment.

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Checking the Earth: Ocean's Over-Exploitation
5. Checking the Earth: Ocean's Over-Exploitation
December 31, 2006
With the advent of industrial fishing in the 19th century, northern European coasts started to show the first signs of unsustainable fishing activity. Since then, succeeding decades have witnessed a drop in worldwide fish populations.
Who Is Destroying the Forest
4. Who Is Destroying the Forest
December 31, 2006
For millions of years, humans have made use of the wood from their forests. It was a sustainable way of using this resource. In recent decades, global deforestation has gotten out of control, with no end in sight.
Checking the Earth: Who Is Destroying the Forest?
4. Checking the Earth: Who Is Destroying the Forest?
December 31, 2006
For millions of years, humans have made use of the wood from their forests. It was a sustainable way of using this resource. In recent decades, global deforestation has gotten out of control, with no end in sight.
Checking the Earth: A World Apart
3. Checking the Earth: A World Apart
December 31, 2006
What would happen if consumption everywhere on the planet were at the same level as it is in first world countries? Nothing would happen. At least one billion people on this planet live in a world apart, which gets worse every day.
Food for All
2. Food for All
December 31, 2006
Human beings spend a great deal of time thinking about how to feed themselves, but have they given enough thought to the way in which they do so? In a global world the injustice of an unbalanced access to food is everyone's problem.
Checking the Earth: Food for All?
2. Checking the Earth: Food for All?
December 31, 2006
Human beings spend a great deal of time thinking about how to feed themselves, but have they given enough thought to the way in which they do so? In a global world the injustice of an unbalanced access to food is everyone's problem.
Checking the Earth: Global Dump
1. Checking the Earth: Global Dump
December 31, 2006
Third-world countries are at the top of the list when it comes to the misery created by uncontrolled progress. The consequences of development are converting the poorest populations on the planet into the great global dumpster of planet earth.
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  • Premiere Date
    December 31, 2006