Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Plot

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.

Cast

Esraa Bani

Herself (Population Action International)

Albert Bartlett

Himself - Host

Lester Brown

Himself (Earth Policy Institute)

Martha Campbell

Herself (Venture Strategies)

Susan Davis

Herself (BRAC)

Brian Dixon

Himself (Population Connection)

Paul R. Ehrlich

Himself - Host

Riane Eisler

Herself (Center for Partnership Studies)

Katie Elmore Mota

Herself (Population Media Center)

John Feeney

Himself (Environmental writer)

Sara Morello

Herself

Malcolm Potts

Himself (University of California at Berkeley)

William N. Ryerson

Himself (Population Media Center)

Peter Sawtell

Himself (Eco-Justice Ministries)

Laura S. Scott

Herself (author of Two Is Enough)