HOME - a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The GoodPlanet Foundation was created in 2005 to raise awareness and offer solutions to Earth's ecological crisis. Yann Arthus-Bertrand, who is the chairman of the foundation, has flown over 100 countries taking aerial views of this planet. These have been put together in the film HOME which is free for all to view. It is an amazing, breathtaking and disturbing look at the planet we call home.

Watch HOME on You Tube

Following are some figures from their website, http://www.home-2009.com/ about our planet.

• 20% of the world's population consumes 80% of the planet's resources
• The world spends twelve times more on weapons than on aid to developing countries
• 5,000 people die every day because of polluted drinking water
• 1 billion humans have no access to safe drinking water
• 1 billion people are going hungry
• Over 50% of the grain traded around the world is used for animal feed or biofuels
• 40% of arable land is degraded
• Every year, 13 million hectares of forest disappear
• 75% of fisheries products are exhausted, depleted or in danger of being so
• The average temperature of the last 15 years has been the highest since records began
• The ice cap has lost 40% of it thickness in 40 years
• There could be 200 million climate refugees by 2050