The Population Explosion

Duration: 0:38:00

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Carousel Films Inc | Columbia Broadcasting System

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the problems of population expansion through a survey of the conditions which exist in India and interviews with leaders of the country who are interested in the problem. Presents inverviews with Nehru, Lady Rama Rau, and Archbishop Fernandez on solutions of the problem including birth control, family planning, and increased food production. Suggests that these problems must be internally solved to be permanent. Additional solutions offered are conversion of algae into protein food, migration of peoples to thinly settled areas, and foreign aid. Failure to solve this problem will increase poverty, hunger, delinquency, and unemployment which will result in the advance of Communism in these new nations.

Complete Record: , Documents the problems of population expansion through a survey of the conditions which exist in India and interviews with leaders of the country who are interested in the problem. Presents inverviews with Nehru, Lady Rama Rau, and Archbishop Fernandez on solutions of the problem including birth control, family planning, and increased food production. Suggests that these problems must be internally solved to be permanent. Additional solutions offered are conversion of algae into protein food, migration of peoples to thinly settled areas, and foreign aid. Failure to solve this problem will increase poverty, hunger, delinquency, and unemployment which will result in the advance of Communism in these new nations.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.