New Episode of the PBS Series, Journey To Planet Earth, Premieres March 30th: 10 PM (see listings for time and additional dates in your area).
"Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization," a documentary based on the book by environmental thought leader Lester Brown, will be broadcast on PBS on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 10 p.m.
The documentary is produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Marilyn & Hal Weiner and Academy Award winner Matt Damon will host and narrate.
This is the 12th episode of Journey to Planet Earth, which reports on the most important environmental and sustainable development issues of the 21st century.
Appearing with Lester Brown are Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Friedman, former Governor and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, along with other scholars and scientists.
It will be shown in China, Japan, Korea, India, Italy, Turkey, Bangladesh, Zambia, Haiti, and the US.
The film begins with a dramatic portrayal of a world where there is a mounting tide of public concern about melting glaciers and sea level rise and a growing sense that we need to change course. Ocean resources are becoming scarce, croplands are eroding, and harvests are shrinking.
"Plan B" then offers audiences hopeful solutions – a roadmap into an emerging economy based upon renewable energy sources and realistic strategies to avoid the growing threat of global warming – how we can eradicate poverty, stabilize populations and protect and restore our planet’s fisheries, forests, aquifers, soils, grasslands, and biological diversity.
"Plan B" is made possible by major grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Turner Foundation, and the Wallace Genetic Foundation, with additional funding from Park Foundation, Weeden Foundation, and the Campbell Foundation.
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