Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion 2011

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Mother, the film, breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that silently fuels our largest environmental, humanitarian and social crises - population growth. Since the 1960s the world population has nearly doubled, adding more than 3 billion people. At the same time, talking about population has become politically incorrect because of the sensitivity of the issues surrounding the topic- religion, economics, family planning and gender inequality. The film illustrates both the over consumption and the inequity side of the population issue by following Beth, a mother, a child-rights activist and the last sibling of a large American family of twelve, as she discovers the thorny complexities of the population dilemma and highlights a different path to solve it.

  • Released: 2011-05-15
  • Runtime: 69 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Stars: Martha Campbell, Paul R. Ehrlich, Laura S. Scott, Albert Bartlett, Mathis Wackernagel, Riane Eisler, Negussie Teffera, Peter Sawtell, Malcolm Potts, Sara Morello, Lyuba Zarsky, William N. Ryerson, Esraa Bani, Katie Elmore Mota, Lester Brown, Brian Dixon, Susan Davis, John Feeney, Robert Walker
  • Director: Christophe Fauchere