The Human Footprint (2007)
Touch Productions

Description

In a National Geographic special event, The Human Footprint reveals the extraordinary impact that each of our lives has on the world around us. In a playful, surprising and thought-provoking portrait of our time on earth, National Geographic demonstrates, in a series of remarkable visuals, what makes up an average human life today and how everything we do has impact on the world around us. In this unique journey through life, it shows all the people you will ever know, how much waste you will produce, the amount of fuel youll consume and how much you've got to pack in during your 2,475,526,000 seconds on Earth.

Tags

Environment, Global warming, Biodiversity

Collected reviews and ratings

8.0 Amazon user reviews

The intelligence that went into creating this movie, and the artistic creabtivity and sheer industry in amassing visual depictions of what goes into making and using things, is absolutely top of the line world class.
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7.0 All About Jazz | Mark Dawidziak

For the most part, however, "Human Footprint" is as engaging as it is innovative. It isn't perfect and it may be guilty of excess, but, then again, the people who made this special are only human.
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6.0 New York Times | Ed Bark

It all gets more than a little wearying, once the wow factor has receded. All right, all right, enough with the prolonged shower of a lifetime's worth of 19,826 eggs sent splattering into an unsightly “omelet of a lifetime”.
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