In Our Hands - 1992 U.N. Conference -Beyond the Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro

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Rare, in depth coverage of what really happened in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the United Nations Conference on Environment & Development (UNCED). This video focuses on Women, Indigenous People, and Youth and features events and interviews at the alternative NGO Global Forum with many future Nobel Prize winners - Al Gore, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, and Wangari Maathai, founder Kenya’s Greenbelt Movement. Other spokespeople are Sarah James Gwich’in Indian, Seneca Chief Oren Lyons, Jewell James of the Lummi Tribe, Dr. Helen Caldicott, David Suzuki, Bianca Jagger, Maurice Strong, Edward James Olmos, and John Denver performing with Dean Evenson backing him on flute!

Enter a planetary state of mind through this powerful and compelling documentary. Go beyond the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro as you share the concerns of women, youth and indigenous people who gathered at the alternative Global Forum to explore low tech, common sense solutions to our ongoing environmental and social problems.

In June 1992, the world met in Brazil to discuss the fate of our planet. National representatives, heads of state, non-governmental organizations, and individuals gathered with the purpose of determining specific agreements that would balance environmental preservation with economic needs. While the official government business-controlled UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) took center stage, this alternative conference - to which you now invited - convened.

IN OUR HANDS exposes the depth and complexity of issues facing our future on the planet. As United States citizens, we are especially challenged to examine the impact of our lifestyle choices. With only 5% of the world’s population, the United States consumes 25% of the Earth’s resources. This documentary inspires us to a renewed sense of personal responsibility and commitment to action. The world needs to hear this message from Rio. The planet – and the solutions – are IN OUR HANDS.

“The ecological crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis…the philosophy of harmonious relation to the environment is part of the solution.”
—Al Gore

“Challenge anything which is anti-natural and move toward natural law, natural view, less consumption…back to a spiritual sense of being and caring for all our relations.”
—Tony Gonzales, International Indian Treaty Council

“It is not only up to the governments to be the decision making factor. Individuals can make a difference.”
—Bianca Jagger, Activist

Related video:

Long Live Life – 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment
https://youtu.be/TFBDXm8DaYc

Videotaped by Dean Evenson and Kevin Corrigan. Original video footage High 8.

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