Planet Warning
Series produced by Judy Lubow
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Two-minute analyses of the serious environmental, economic and social crises facing the world and the US, with analogy made to the catastrophic attack on Pearl Harbor. Pieces are embedded in World War II music and audio recordings.
Each piece in this series, produced regularly every-other week, comments on an indvidual crisis facing the world or the US, such as ocean acidification, crash of global fishstocks, loss of US manufacturing jobs, etc.
Each piece is embedded in World War II music and audio recordings to drive home the seriousness of the crisis.
32 Pieces
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A scientific conference in London, England studied the geologic impacts of climate change by reviewing the records of previous warming periods. It...
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Revised edition. A report shows that the last 50 years of tax cuts benefited the very rich but left the middle class without improvement.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:59
Revised piece. Too much carbon is flooding the ocean with carbolic acid, with devestating effects on life in the sea.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:58
Six monster banks control 60% of the US Gross National Product
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 03:59
Scientists believe the earth is in the midst of the 6th mass extinction of species now, due to human-induced causes.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 02:00
The US has been hemorrhaging high-paying manufacturing jobs since the 1959s.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:59
Scientists predict fish stocks worldwide will collapse by mid-century unless drastic changes are made to humankind's impact on the oceans.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Revised edition. An international scientific study concludes that the negative effects of climate chanage will be irreversible for at least 1000 ye...
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- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 03:58
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While the middle class in the US is struggling to survive, the rich keep getting richer.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:01
As worldwide population increases and the world gets hotter, water shortages are expected worldwide, including in the US.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 01:59
The revolving door between the federal government and its favorite contractors sets up abuses.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
There are now over 400 "dead zones" in coastal oceanic waters with varying degrees of oxygen-deprivation.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Statistics demonstrate the decline of the middle class, and that the problem is a long term one.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 01:59
A stand-alone segment of the Planet Warning Series. Reports on the jobless "recovery" that the US has been moved into from the Great Recession.
- Added: Oct 13, 2010
- Length: 02:00
As the rainforest is being depleted, two new areas of concern arise.
- Added: Oct 30, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Although the World Bank wants to be thought of as green, figures reveal that the Bank is flooding the third world with fossil fuel energy projects.
- Added: Nov 11, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Steve Rattner - Wall Street success story and Obama's wonder-boy auto czar - is now also a poster child for Wall Street corruption.
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Coral reefs are the "canary in the coal mine" for the oceans, and they are not doing well.
- Added: Dec 13, 2010
- Length: 01:59
As the Federal Reserve finally reveals secrets of its massive, trillion-dollar bailout of the world's financial system, it's time to ask if the Fed...
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Scientists have discovered that deep ocean waters near Antarctica have been heating up. Learn about the consequences now and for the future.
- Added: Jan 06, 2011
- Length: 01:59
