NOW with Bill Moyers; The Earth Debate

August 23, 2002

The Bush administration's handling of environmental issues has been called "the most concerted exploitation of the public's land, air and water since fundamental protection laws went into effect three decades ago." NOW profiles three government insiders who worked for decades to safeguard the environment and then found the rug pulled out from under them in WE DISSENT. Then, NOW presents an excerpt from the PBS series WIDE ANGLE. Ten years ago, filmmaker Bruno Sorrentino began recording the lives of eight newborn babies from around the world. In GROWING UP GLOBAL Sorrentino tracks how over the past ten years, a child from China and a child from Latvia have been affected by economic and environmental developments. Also on the program, Bill Moyers interviews Dennis Halliday, former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the U.N. Humanitarian Program in Iraq. He resigned in protest over what economic sanctions are doing to the Iraqi people. Harlem is recognized the world over for the universal language of jazz and art and its writers like Langston Hughes. Its troubles are also famous. But right now Harlem is on the rebound. However, the new vitality is not without a price - some of the neighborhood's irreplaceable heritage is being torn down and paved over. Writer and architecture historian Michael Henry Adams comments on Harlem in transition. NOW WITH BILL MOYERS: A weekly news magazine, reported in conjunction with NPR, includes documentary reporting, in-depth one-on-one interviews, and insightful commentary from a wide variety of media-makers and those behind the headlines.