[00:07] Lights viewed at night from space reveal not only where we live, but how we live.

[00:12] Large clusters of lights show where North Americans, Europeans and Japanese live, and how much energy they consume.

[00:19] Now, compare the nighttime view in Sub-Saharan Africa - a region where natural resources are severely strained. It is poorly lit, even though about 200-million more people live there than in North America.

[00:32] This nighttime view of the Earth illuminates the gap between the world's richest nations, and those with high rates of poverty and depleted resources.

[00:40] Nearly half of the world's population lives on less than two dollars a day. Most live in rural areas, and depend directly on the land, forests, and water systems to survive.

[00:51] But the global demand for Earth's resources is intensifying. More than 6-billion people live on the planet, and 80-million more are added each year-like adding a New York City almost every month!

[01:03] Most of this growth will occur in countries already most deprived.

[01:07] The impacts of human activity reach into every corner of the Earth.

[01:11] City lights at night - and their absence in places - reveal a divide that must close between the world's richest and poorest people.

[01:19] Otherwise the hopelessness and despair that accompany poverty will drive environmental devastation, whose consequences cannot be shielded from any of us.