Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF discusses the world's children with host Jamie Rubin.

We're used to thinking of the world as completely divided between rich and poor -- and to a large extent that's true. But because of the ways humans have damaged the environment, we face not only an increasingly grim future, but also an increasingly shared one, where Latvia and Kenya will be dealing with the same kinds of problems as Louisiana and Kentucky.

Link to information about the World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 and sustainable development projects throughout the world.

Over the past half century, most population growth has occurred in the developing world. In high-birth rate countries such as Kenya, the population not only grows, it grows younger. Forty-three percent of Kenya’s population is under 14, compared to 21 percent for the United States.

Ten years ago, filmmaker Bruno Sorrentino began recording the lives of eight newborn babies from around the world. In 1992, world leaders met in Brazil for the Earth Summit on sustainable development. There they made plans and promises to conquer the global problems of overpopulation, over-consumption and poverty. In the ten years since, Sorrentino has revisited the children repeatedly and recorded how their lives have been affected by the issues discussed at Rio.

With the departure of the Taliban, the current opium crop in Afghanistan is among the largest ever. How will the world's drug control authorities deal with this fact of Central Asian life? And how will the United States resolve a dilemma that pits the war on terror against the war on drugs?