On Oct 24, 2006 one of the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organizations - the World Wildlife Fund - released their 2006 Living Planet Report. With climate change and its potentially dire consequences on the lips of mainstream media, the 8th such report might finally do more than reach deaf ears. The report claims that the world's natural ecosystems are being degraded at a rate unprecedented in human history. Summarizing data collected and analyzed since 1970 on more than 3600 populations of 1300 land and water vertebrate species, the WWF (as they are called) say that humanity's Ecological Footprint - or our demand on the biosphere - has more than tripled over the past 40 years, exceeding biocapacity, or what the earth can regenerate by 25%...creating an ecological debt as they say. And fossil fuels, according to the report, is the fastest growing component of our global footprint, increasing more than nine fold since 1961. In our unquenchable thirst for economic growth and energy, join me Andrew Reissiger as we look at mining communities in West Virginia, northern Mexico, Potosi Bolivia, and China, as we put a face on the price of future today on World Tour.

On Oct 24, 2006 one of the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organizations - the World Wildlife Fund - released their 2006 Living Planet Report. With climate change and its potentially dire consequences on the lips of mainstream media, the 8th such report might finally do more than reach deaf ears. The report claims that the world's natural ecosystems are being degraded at a rate unprecedented in human history. Summarizing data collected and analyzed since 1970 on more than 3600 populations of 1300 land and water vertebrate species, the WWF (as they are called) say that humanity's Ecological Footprint - or our demand on the biosphere - has more than tripled over the past 40 years, exceeding biocapacity, or what the earth can regenerate by 25%...creating an ecological debt as they say. And fossil fuels, according to the report, is the fastest growing component of our global footprint, increasing more than nine fold since 1961. In our unquenchable thirst for economic growth and energy, join me Andrew Reissiger as we look at mining communities in West Virginia, northern Mexico, Potosi Bolivia, and China, as we put a face on the price of future today on World Tour.