Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Name: Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-05-15
Duration: 69 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Esraa Bani, Albert Bartlett, Lester Brown, Martha Campbell, Susan Davis

6.6 (7)2011-05-151h 9m

Documentary

Overview

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.