Around the World in 60 minutes

BBC Four
Around the World in 60 minutes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ymjkt

Excerpts:

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ICELAND


BRAZIL

"Amazon, this rain forest covers around the 1.5 billion acres of the land,
not only it's the home of thousands of species plants and animals, bus as we now know,
this forest is one of the lungs of planet, absorbing CO2 in atmosphere and
replacing it with Oxygen. It keeps the planet's climate and atmosphere in balance."


VENEZUELA
Lightning


TEXAS
Farmland
60 million cattles


LAS VEGAS
Every 90 minutes, LA uses 69,437,863 litre of water.
one of the fatest place in America.
2/3 overweight.

"Its estimated that by 2050,
there's going to be 9 billion people on the planet,
and thats going to be streth of resources of we have,
produce food, to distribute food ..."


HAWAII
Plastic


NORTHERN & SOUTHERN LIGHTS


SOUTH KOREA
one of the richest country in the world.
Computer games.


CHINA
World's largest pollution.


CHERAPUNJI, INDIA
Wetest place in the world

"Every 90 minutes, 81.6 trillion liters fresh water pour as the rain."


KAZAKHSTAN
Aral Sea

"Every 90 minutes, 34 square km of land become desert somewhere on planet."


ARABIAN GULF


ETHIOPIA
Cradle of Humanity

"With every orbit (i.e 90 minutes) of Inernational Space Station (ISS)
23,019 children are born on our planet."


SWEDEN
3rd largest country in EU.
poulation just over 9 million.
stable, prosperous and healthy nation in the world.

"Every 90 minutes, people of Sweden give half a million pound to charity."

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