Dancing Star Foundation & Population Communications present
No Vacancy
If current world population trends were to continue, human numbers could more than double, hitting 13 billion sometime in the 22nd century. A population explosion of such magnitude would be ecologically disastrous.
No Vacancy is that rare chronicle of sobering optimism in a world more accustomed to thinking about population as a dilemma with little hope of positive reversal. Family planning professional Bob Gillespie journeys the world in search of answers, providing an extraordinary window on those remarkable changes occurring in country after country; new currents that have resulted in smaller family sizes, and the empowerment of women and children.
From Iran, Mexico, Ghana and Nigeria, to countries across Western Europe, as well as the U.S., India, China and Indonesia, No Vacancy paints an emotional, at times provocative, portrait of a global transformation, a fertility transition that may well prove to be one of the most important ingredients in humanity’s survival, and the survival of the earth.
No Vacancy was made with principal funding from the Fred H. Bixby Foundation. A book version by the same time, edited by Michael Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison, Bob Gillespie and Elizabeth Hughes, is forthcoming from Hope Publishing in the spring of 2006.
[US; 2005; 90/55 min.]