Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

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.

Directed by Christophe Fauchere

Top cast

E

Esraa Bani

Herself (Population Action International)

A

Albert Bartlett

Himself - Host

L

Lester Brown

Himself (Earth Policy Institute)

M

Martha Campbell

Herself (Venture Strategies)

S

Susan Davis

Herself (BRAC)

B

Brian Dixon

Himself (Population Connection)

Paul R. Ehrlich

Himself - Host

R

Riane Eisler

Herself (Center for Partnership Studies)

Katie Elmore Mota

Herself (Population Media Center)

J

John Feeney

Himself (Environmental writer)

S

Sara Morello

Herself

M

Malcolm Potts

Himself (University of California at Berkeley)

W

William N. Ryerson

Himself (Population Media Center)

P

Peter Sawtell

Himself (Eco-Justice Ministries)

L

Laura S. Scott

Herself (author of Two Is Enough)

N

Negussie Teffera

Himself (Population Media Center)

M

Mathis Wackernagel

Himself (Global Footprint Network)

L

Lyuba Zarsky

Herself (Monterey Institute of International Studies)

R

Robert Walker

Himself (Population Institute)

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