Today, humanity’s demand for resources vastly exceeds nature’s ability to supply them. Food, water, climate and extinction emergencies are unfolding before our eyes. 8 Billion Angels exposes the conflict between the size of our global population and the sustainability of our planet. It dispels the misperceptions that technology can save us, that reducing consumption is…
Eight Billion People in the World Is a Crisis, Not an Achievement The major driver of plant and animal loss is habitat destruction caused primarily by the encroachment of a swelling human population. By Naomi Oreskes The world reached two important milestones toward the end of last year. First, the human population passed eight…
A question of numbers: Does the global population hitting 8 billion herald famine, mass migration, new plagues and water wars – or a glorious era of human progress, asks DOMINIC SANDBROOK Dominic Sandbrook of the UK’s Daily Mail references 8 Billion Angels in his wide-ranging piece on the implications of reaching a global population of 8 Billion…
The 2022 California Capital International Film Festival recently awarded 8 Billion Angels its “Clean PowerCity Champion Film Award.” Produced by the California Capital Arts Foundation and supported by the City of Rancho Cordova, the Film Festival, held June 10-12, 2022 is the first documentary film festival in the Sacramento Region and featured nonfiction cinematography from around the globe.
8 Billion Angels has been selected by the Richmond Environmental Film Festival to serve as the marquee film for the 12th Annual RVA Environmental Film Festival on Friday, February 18th in a partnership with James River Association. The film fulfills the mission of the Festival by raising awareness of the critical environmental issues facing Richmond,…
Talking about overpopulation isn’t sexy, but we have to do it. Podcast host Veronika Perková created Nature Solutionaries to support inspirational conservationists and encourage listeners to do something good for nature. In this episode she interviews Terry Spahr, the environmentalist and producer behind the documentary 8 BILLION ANGELS. They talk about: how population growth impacts our…