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Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 15, 2011

Runtime

1h 9m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

65%

Original Title

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Director

Christophe Fauchere

Description

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.