Planet in Peril: Battle Lines Documentary on CNN
Lisa Ling on The View to Promote Special Environmental Investigation
Dec 8, 2008
Lisa Ling appeared on The View on ABC to promote an upcoming special on CNN: Planet in Peril – Battle Lines, which will air on December 11, 2008. The worldwide investigation explores the waste of the planet’s resources.
Ling, a former host of The View, illustrated the show's concept by speaking the hunting of sharks as an example of topics they will cover. She said that sharks are caught just for the shark fin soup, which is a delicacy. Sharks that are caught get their fins cut off and they are thrown back into the ocean. This is not only cruel, it is wasteful.
Planet in Peril Environment Coverage will be hosted by Anderson Cooper, chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and The Oprah Winfrey Show correspondent and National Geographic host Lisa Ling. The award winning series by CNN examines the environmental conflicts between growing populations and natural resources.
Planet in Peril: Battle Lines Topics
The CNN website has a blog by Lisa Ling with sickening stories of poor living conditions in third world countries and of environmental waste around the world.
- Poor living conditions in Nigeria – The country is a rich source of oil that has made some people colossally rich, but the natives are among the poorest in the world.
- Elephant Poaching in Central Africa – Numbers of Central African Elephants have dwindled from nearly to hundred thousand t several thousand as a result f the global demand for ivory made from their tusks.
- Lead Poisoning in La Oroya, Peru – This town in the Andes Mountains is home to a smelting complex that processes metal laden rocks into lead, copper and zinc. 99 percent of the children living in the area have blood levels that exceed acceptable levels.
- Oil Drilling in Alaska
- Threatened Extinction of mammals – Nearly a fourth os the world’s mammals are threatened the extinction. Of the 5487 mammals on earth, at least 1,141 are endangers according the International Union for Conservation of Nature (UCN), including Harp Seals, Chimpanzee, Red Panda, Sumatran Tiger and the Red Ruffed Lemur.
- Tuberculosis in Peruvian Villages
- Drilling into a melting Greenland to predict the future.
Hosts of Planet in Peril: Battle Lines
- Anderson Cooper – Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN/U.S. weekdays.
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta – Chief Medical Correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN.
- Lisa Ling – Ling is The Oprah Winfrey Show correspondent and National Geographic host.
Planet in Peril: Battle Lines in HDTV will air on CNN on Thursday, December 11 at 9 pm ET. Planet in Peril is an award winning series.
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