Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

69 mins | Documentary | May 15, 2011

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.

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

69 mins | Documentary | May 15, 2011

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers
Original title Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
Directors Christophe Fauchere
Writers

Cast

Esraa Bani

as Herself (Population Action International)

Albert Bartlett

as Himself - Host

Lester Brown

as Himself (Earth Policy Institute)

Martha Campbell

as Herself (Venture Strategies)

Susan Davis

as Herself (BRAC)

Brian Dixon

as Himself (Population Connection)

Paul R. Ehrlich

as Himself - Host

Riane Eisler

as Herself (Center for Partnership Studies)

Katie Elmore Mota

as Herself (Population Media Center)

John Feeney

as Himself (Environmental writer)

Sara Morello

as Herself

Malcolm Potts

as Himself (University of California at Berkeley)

William N. Ryerson

as Himself (Population Media Center)

Peter Sawtell

as Himself (Eco-Justice Ministries)

Laura S. Scott

as Herself (author of Two Is Enough)

Negussie Teffera

as Himself (Population Media Center)

Aminata Toure

as Herself (United Nations Population Fund)

Mathis Wackernagel

as Himself (Global Footprint Network)

Lyuba Zarsky

as Herself (Monterey Institute of International Studies)

Robert Walker

as Himself (Population Institute)