1. Michael Charles Tobias was born on June 27,1951 and is an American author, environmentalist, mountaineer, and filmmaker.
13 Facts About Michael Tobias
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In 1991, Tobias produced a ten-hour dramatic television series, Voice of the Planet, for Turner Broadcasting; the series starred William Shatner.
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Michael Tobias has written numerous books, most notably World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium.
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In 1977, Michael Tobias received a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the History of Consciousness, a humanities department.
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Michael Tobias released a 1987 PBS film entitled Antarctica: The Last Continent with a similar topic, proposing the creation of an "international park" in Antarctica similar to national parks in the US.
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Michael Tobias directed a feature-film documentary called No Vacancy, which is based on his book and focuses on the growing world population.
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Journalist Ellen Snortland, writing in the Pasadena Weekly, stated that "No Vacancy, written and directed by Michael Tobias, is to the world's population explosion what Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is to global warming".
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Michael Tobias received the international Courage of Conscience Award in 1996.
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Michael Tobias delivered the annual address at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies in March 2012 as the opening for a symposium on conservation biology, animal rights, and comparative religions.
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In 2013, Michael Tobias gave an address to the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, the Research Centre for Sustainable Development, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at their annual conference in Tianjin and Binhai.
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Michael Tobias has given addresses in Monterrey, Mexico, for the Fifth Conference on Worldwide Values, and at the 21st International Meeting of the Club of Budapest in Hungary.
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Michael Tobias is an honorary member of the Club of Budapest.
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From 2001 to 2002, Michael Tobias was Regents Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Environmental Studies.