Watch Gaiam TV Checking the Earth

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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Seasons

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.

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.

4. Who Is Destroying the Forest

December 31, 2006

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.

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.

2. Food for All

December 31, 2006

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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