Survival of Spaceship Earth (1972)
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.
Director: Dirk Wayne Summers
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Raymond Burr as Self - Narrator |
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Hugh Downs as Self - Narrator / Host |
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Rene Dubos as Writer |
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Margaret Mead as Self |
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Walter Orr Robert as Self |
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John D. Rockefeller III as Self |
| Production | Dirk Wayne Summers | Producer |
| Editing | Bob Kagey | Editor |
| Directing | Dirk Wayne Summers | Director |
| Directing | Richard Wayne Summers | Assistant Director |
| Writing | John Holdren | Writer |
| Writing | Barbara Ward | Writer |
| Editing | Gloryette Clark | Editor |
| Production | Charles F. Kettering | Associate Producer |
| Writing | Rene Dubos | Writer |
| Visual Effects | John J. Dumas | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Writing | Dirk Wayne Summers | Writer |