Mother Caring for 7 Billion (2011)

Mother the film breaks a 40year 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 childrights 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