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The World Changes is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as an ambitious farm boy who becomes rich, but does not handle success well. Aline MacMahon and Mary Astor play his mother and wife, respectively.
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The World Changes: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Paul Muni, Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook. An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat-packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.
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- Drama, Romance
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1933-11-25
Guillen explains the demographic, economic and technological changes we can expect to see across the world in the next decade.
- The world now has the largest generation of young people ever. Adolescents and youth, those between 10 and 24 years old, accounted for 28 per cent of the world population in 2010.
- The proportion of people living in extreme poverty has been cut nearly in half – but economic inequality is now growing. The proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day has fallen from 47 per cent in 1990 to 22 per cent in 2010.
- In the last 20 years, the world’s population grew by about a quarter, from 5.66 billion to 7.24 billion. Every one of the world’s 7.2 billion people – and every person still to come – deserves to have their human rights and dignity respected and protected.
- But the population is growing more slowly. Twenty years ago, the population was growing by 1.52 per cent per year. Today, it is growing by 1.15 per cent per year.
Jan 23, 2024 · CNN — The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years is no ordinary clock — it attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was again set at 90...
“Climate change” encompasses global warming, but refers to the broader range of changes that are happening to our planet, including rising sea levels; shrinking mountain glaciers; accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic; and shifts in flower/plant blooming times.
