This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more).
In 1970, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day. One of the more alarming predictions that day was from Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, who foresaw a future in which “population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” resulting in the starvation death of hundreds of millions.
Hollywood took notice and released a string of eco-disaster films in the years to follow.
In 1972’s Silent Running, a science fiction film starring Bruce Dern — and directed by 2001: A Space Odyssey effects master Douglas Trumbull — all plant life on Earth has gone extinct. And 1973’s Soylent Green, with Charlton Heston (who had starred in two other sci-fi hits, 1968’s Planet of the Apes and 1971’s The Omega Man), took Ehrlich’s ideas to scary, if campy, extremes.
Helmed by Richard Fleischer...
In 1970, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day. One of the more alarming predictions that day was from Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, who foresaw a future in which “population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” resulting in the starvation death of hundreds of millions.
Hollywood took notice and released a string of eco-disaster films in the years to follow.
In 1972’s Silent Running, a science fiction film starring Bruce Dern — and directed by 2001: A Space Odyssey effects master Douglas Trumbull — all plant life on Earth has gone extinct. And 1973’s Soylent Green, with Charlton Heston (who had starred in two other sci-fi hits, 1968’s Planet of the Apes and 1971’s The Omega Man), took Ehrlich’s ideas to scary, if campy, extremes.
Helmed by Richard Fleischer...
- 3/22/2023
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
San Francisco, Jan 2 (Ians) Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the 1968 book “The Population Bomb” by American biologist Paul Ehrlich is the “most damaging” book ever written.
Twitter user Dr Jordan B Peterson, who is a well-known author and psychologist tweeted: “Paul Ehrlich has been famously wrong about everything he has predicted for six decades.”
To this, Musk replied: “His ‘Population Bomb’ book might the most damaging anti-human thing ever written.”
The 90-year-old Ehrlich is known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources.
The controversial book, which Ehrlich co-authored with his wife Anne, warns of the perils of overpopulation: mass starvation, societal upheaval, and environmental deterioration.
The best-seller had been criticised at the time for painting an overly dark picture of the future.
Last year, Musk had shared his views on earth and its population, in which he said that the planet can...
Twitter user Dr Jordan B Peterson, who is a well-known author and psychologist tweeted: “Paul Ehrlich has been famously wrong about everything he has predicted for six decades.”
To this, Musk replied: “His ‘Population Bomb’ book might the most damaging anti-human thing ever written.”
The 90-year-old Ehrlich is known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources.
The controversial book, which Ehrlich co-authored with his wife Anne, warns of the perils of overpopulation: mass starvation, societal upheaval, and environmental deterioration.
The best-seller had been criticised at the time for painting an overly dark picture of the future.
Last year, Musk had shared his views on earth and its population, in which he said that the planet can...
- 1/2/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
“8 Billion Angels,” a documentary that grapples with overpopulation, has sold North American theatrical distribution rights to Abramorama.
The independent distributor plans to premiere the film virtually on April 20 before making it available on-demand on April 23. Following the April 20 premiere, the filmmakers will host a panel to discuss the inconvenient truths of overpopulation.
Terry Spahr, a sustainability expert and environmental activist, directed “8 Billion Angels,” which poses the unsettling question: “Are there too many of us for planet Earth?”
“With every environmental crisis getting worse not better, it’s ‘all hands on deck,'” Spahr said. “Unless and until we change our way of thinking, we won’t solve this emergency.”
The documentary details the conflict between the size of our global population and the sustainability of our planet. It argues that humanity’s demand for resources vastly exceeds nature’s ability to supply them, and real food, water, climate and extinction emergencies are rapidly unfolding.
The independent distributor plans to premiere the film virtually on April 20 before making it available on-demand on April 23. Following the April 20 premiere, the filmmakers will host a panel to discuss the inconvenient truths of overpopulation.
Terry Spahr, a sustainability expert and environmental activist, directed “8 Billion Angels,” which poses the unsettling question: “Are there too many of us for planet Earth?”
“With every environmental crisis getting worse not better, it’s ‘all hands on deck,'” Spahr said. “Unless and until we change our way of thinking, we won’t solve this emergency.”
The documentary details the conflict between the size of our global population and the sustainability of our planet. It argues that humanity’s demand for resources vastly exceeds nature’s ability to supply them, and real food, water, climate and extinction emergencies are rapidly unfolding.
- 3/11/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Jackson Browne unveiled a sleek new song, “Downhill From Everywhere,” just in time for Earth Day (April 22nd).
The song will be released as a single paired with his recent track “A Little Soon to Say” as the B-side. Both will be included on his upcoming studio album, out October 9th.
“Downhill from everywhere/Downhill from all you see/The ocean is downhill from gravity,” Browne sings along a smooth guitar riff. “Downhill from here/Downhill from everywhere/Downhill from all of humanity.”
Browne has been working on “Downhill From Everywhere” for the past 10 years.
The song will be released as a single paired with his recent track “A Little Soon to Say” as the B-side. Both will be included on his upcoming studio album, out October 9th.
“Downhill from everywhere/Downhill from all you see/The ocean is downhill from gravity,” Browne sings along a smooth guitar riff. “Downhill from here/Downhill from everywhere/Downhill from all of humanity.”
Browne has been working on “Downhill From Everywhere” for the past 10 years.
- 4/20/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
‘Charité’ Review: Netflix’s Historical Hospital Drama Won’t Fix ‘The Knick’-Sized Hole in Your Heart
One of the most fascinating elements of “Charité,” the new six-part German miniseries now available on Netflix, is the operation theater. As a medical drama set in the late 19th century, this combination lecture hall and surgical venue is as compelling a concept as it is unsanitary. To see a procedure like a tracheotomy or an appendectomy, both in their nascent development stages, presented in such a matter-of-fact way is jarring by design. To see progress and hubris in tandem is one of the main reasons why medical dramas (especially ones set in a distant time) continue to be a regular TV staple.
Whenever “Charité” returns to the exhibition-style setting of that instructional surgery hall, it’s hard not to think of the similar scenes in “The Knick,” a show that by virtue of its styling and being set a decade later took a more modern approach to this subgenre.
Whenever “Charité” returns to the exhibition-style setting of that instructional surgery hall, it’s hard not to think of the similar scenes in “The Knick,” a show that by virtue of its styling and being set a decade later took a more modern approach to this subgenre.
- 4/20/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Netflix has acquired the rights to German period hospital drama series “Charité” in multiple territories, including the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia. The show is produced by Ufa, whose credits include “Generation War,” “Deutschland 83” and “Ku’damm 56 – Rebel With a Cause.”
In a deal with sales agent Global Screen, the streaming giant has taken rights to the six-part production in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and German-speaking Europe. The series delivered stellar ratings for Germany’s public broadcaster Ard/Das Erste when it premiered last year. The first two episodes reached more than 8.41 million viewers and an audience share of 25.9%, delivering the best performance of a primetime series in 13 years and the most successful launch of a series in more than 25 years for Ard/Das Erste.
The series is set in Berlin in 1888. After penniless Ida is operated on as a patient at the Charité Hospital,...
In a deal with sales agent Global Screen, the streaming giant has taken rights to the six-part production in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and German-speaking Europe. The series delivered stellar ratings for Germany’s public broadcaster Ard/Das Erste when it premiered last year. The first two episodes reached more than 8.41 million viewers and an audience share of 25.9%, delivering the best performance of a primetime series in 13 years and the most successful launch of a series in more than 25 years for Ard/Das Erste.
The series is set in Berlin in 1888. After penniless Ida is operated on as a patient at the Charité Hospital,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Walker: Actor in MGM films of the '40s. Robert Walker: Actor who conveyed boy-next-door charms, psychoses At least on screen, I've always found the underrated actor Robert Walker to be everything his fellow – and more famous – MGM contract player James Stewart only pretended to be: shy, amiable, naive. The one thing that made Walker look less like an idealized “Average Joe” than Stewart was that the former did not have a vacuous look. Walker's intelligence shone clearly through his bright (in black and white) grey eyes. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” programming, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating today, Aug. 9, '15, to Robert Walker, who was featured in 20 films between 1943 and his untimely death at age 32 in 1951. Time Warner (via Ted Turner) owns the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library (and almost got to buy the studio outright in 2009), so most of Walker's movies have...
- 8/9/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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