mountain gorillas is a lesson that conservation is possible. even on the battle lines. over the next 40 years the human population is expected to rise by 50%. already many of our natural resources are dwindling. recently, the u.s. director of national intelligence said over roughly the next decade competition for those resources will likely lead to increased global conflict. the question governments around the world have to answer now is how best to preserve the resources we have left through conservation, innovation, and technology. if you want more information, go to cnn.com/planetinperil. i m anderson cooper. thanks for watching this earth day special of planet in peril. [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow
of the first people that i met here when we got out of the car was a couple by the name of rob and ashley. and they just told me this horrifying story how essentially they were caught in the middle of this tornado as they were driving to their father s restaurant. they were in their car trying to race over to the restaurant so that they could hide in the freezer of the restaurant. but they couldn t make it in time. the car windows exploded. the car was picked off the ground, they say, and tossed several feet. and they told me in their words they thought they were about to die. ed lavandera, stay safe. ed, thank you. a story that we ll be following throughout evening. meantime, i m don lemon, back to planet in peril right after this. (s. phillips) malaria is the number one killer of infants in africa. exxonmobil has many employees in africa
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minutes until our oxygen nearly runs out. seeing it so close is yeah. never seen anything like it. it s amazing. you can get a totally different sense from seeing them like that versus a cage attacking a piece of bait. they re just trying to be sharks. they re just trying to be sharks. but the truth is, we really don t know enough about what that means. as long as our knowledge of sharks and the role they play in our oceans is dwarfed by our fear and our hatred of them, the fight over their future will go on. next on planet in peril mountain gorillas. we ve been hike for nearly
the world have to answer now is how best to preserve the resources we have left through conservation and innovation and technology. if you of the more information go to cnn.com/planetinperil. i m anderson cooper, thanks for watching this special of planet in peril. [ male announcer ] let s kick our excuses to the curb. cover em up with an extra bag of mulch. let s get our hands a little busier.