Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
2011Mother, 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.
Acted in
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)
Mathis Wackernagel
as Himself (Global Footprint Network)
Lyuba Zarsky
as Herself (Monterey Institute of International Studies)
Robert Walker
as Himself (Population Institute)
