Product Details

• Actors: Mikhail Gorbachev, Ted Turner, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Lester Brown
• Directors: Ron Dexter, Douglas Gillies
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: East Beach Productions
• VHS Release Date: August 16, 1999
• Run Time: 52 minutes
• ASIN: 0970270518
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #660,817 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

To imagine a future where the world's big problems are solved, you need to watch this video and decide to solve one of these mega problems.
--Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the #1 New York Timesbest-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul

Product Description

Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, convened the first State of the World forum in San Francisco. Five hundred world leaders met for five days at the Fairmont Hotel to examine the deteriorating environment in combination with a world population that was exploding at the rate of another New York City every month. Where will we be in fifty years?

Ted Turner begins, "The odds are that we're going to not quite get there. But you have to fight for your own survival.

Gorbachev adds, "Time is very short. It's shrinking."

Carl Sagan and Huston Smith meet for the first time on camera as they debate the limits of science and technology to solve the global problems caused by human consumption.

Lynne Twist speaks of the importance of getting involved in a positive solution-oriented organization while Jane Goodall suggests that our best hope resides in the young people.

On the Edge is a wake-up call. It brings the most important issues of our time to the surface and gives the audience the incentive and the tools to do something before it's too late.

You won't be able to stop watching this program. It's the greatest adventure story of all time.

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