Summary: "In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on a overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt ... will stop at nothing to preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium--but that doesn't stop the people of Earth from trying to get in by any means they can"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI ELYDickmann, Nancy
Summary: Earth's population is growing - but whose planet is it? As the number of people who call Earth home increases, habitats are destroyed in order to build homes and grow food to feed the world's population. Taking a balanced look at topics such as the global food chain and food miles, tourism, migration and the refugee crisis, and international responses to natural disasters and pandemics, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welbeck Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.9 DICSummary: Werner Boote traverses the globe with a World Bank umbrella to examine the myths and facts about overpopulation. He speaks with everyone from demographic researchers to environmental activists, and comes to a surprising conclusion. It isn't overpopulation that threatens humanity's existence. Rather, it is the developed world's patterns of over-consumption and constant pursuit of immediate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC POPSasuga, Yu
Summary: While swarms of terraformars close in on Shokichi and the others as they try to rejoin Akari's group, reinforcements from China are arriving on Mars, but it's uncertain if their mission objective to rescue or to exterminate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TERMeyer, Marissa.
Summary: As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y Fiction MeyCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MEYChadwick, Paul (Paul H.)
Summary: Life as Concrete knows it is about to change forever. Former speechwriter Ron Lithgow returns as the title character in Paul Chadwick's critically acclaimed and award-winning miniseries. Trapped in an alien's rock-hard body, Lithgow is an accidental celebrity whose high profile is being courted by a front-page CEO. Though Concrete believes overpopulation to be an important issue, does he want...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2015
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Cook, Diane
Summary: "Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOHartmann, Thom
Summary: In his latest work, top talk-radio host and progressive commentator Thom Hartmann defines three critical breaking points--economic, demographic, and environmental--that we've reached. In clear and impassioned prose, he busts the myths and ideologies of religious fundamentalism, capitalism run amok, male domination, and militarism that are draining our world of its natural and human resources...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.09821 HARSummary: In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ELYEmmott, Stephen.
Summary: "A VINTAGE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. These driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. Just over two hundred years ago, there were one billion humans on Earth. By 1960, there were three billion. There are now over seven billion of us. By 2050, there will be at least nine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SOYStrieber, Whitley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRSummary: This video looks at urgent environmental concerns facing planet Earth and what people can do to repair the degradation humans have caused. Air and water pollution, the effects of pollution on health and the environment, deforestation and loss of wetlands, ozone depletion and global warming, and the negative impact of agriculture, construction, and recreation/tourism are discussed. The program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Bial, Raymond.
Summary: Looks at the problem of dog overpopulation in America; discusses the role of puppy mills, pet stores, and independent breeders; and includes a profile of a local animal shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.0832 BIATabor, James M.
Summary: When a zealous group of scientists launches a plot to release a pandemic virus to end overpopulation, microbiologist Hallie Leland must battle against the elements and an increasingly tense situation at the South Pole to save the world from annihilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013