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Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

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Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (2011)
Mother, the film, breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that silently fuels our most pressing environmental, humanitarian and social crises - population growth. For the first time in 2011, the worldÂ’s population will reach seven billion people. Grounded in the theories of social scientist Riane Eisler, the film strives not to blame but to educate, to highlight a different path for humanity.  Overpopulation is merely a symptom of an even larger problem - a "domination system" that for most of human history has glorified the domination of man over nature, man over child and man over woman. To break this pattern, the film demonstrates that we must change our conquering mindset into a nurturing one. And the first step is to raise the status of women worldwide.
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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 ... Read allMother, 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, ... Read allMother, 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 th... Read all
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    • Christophe Fauchere
  • Stars
    • Esraa Bani
    • Albert Bartlett
    • Lester Brown
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    Esraa Bani
    • Self (Population Action International)
    Albert Bartlett
    • Self - Host
    Lester Brown
    Lester Brown
    • Self (Earth Policy Institute)
    • (as Lester R. Brown)
    Martha Campbell
    • Self (Venture Strategies)
    Susan Davis
    • Self (BRAC)
    Brian Dixon
    • Self (Population Connection)
    Paul Ehrlich
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    Riane Eisler
    • Self (Center for Partnership Studies)
    John Feeney
    • Self (Environmental writer)
    Sara Morello
    • Self
    Katie Elmore Mota
    Katie Elmore Mota
    • Self - Population Media Center
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    Malcolm Potts
    • Self (University of California at Berkeley)
    William N. Ryerson
    • Self (Population Media Center)
    Peter Sawtell
    • Self (Eco-Justice Ministries)
    Laura S. Scott
    • Self (author of Two Is Enough)
    Negussie Teffera
    • Self (Population Media Center)
    Aminata Toure
    • Self (United Nations Population Fund)
    Mathis Wackernagel
    • Self (Global Footprint Network)
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    The United Nations predicts that the population of the world will be 9 billion by 2045. The film discusses the unsustainability of this projection and offers the solution.
    In 1970, world population was 3.7 billion which was then regarded as a major contributor to the global environmental crisis. By 2011, world population has risen to 6.8 billion and technology has proved to be a double-edged sword: on one hand, increasing life expectancy, food and goods production; on the other, resulting in unsustainable population growth with concomitant major problems for humanity's continued existence. Infrastructure in most countries has failed to keep pace with the growth being relentlessly promoted by various pressure groups, and in some countries, aspirational middle classes that previously did not exist, all wishing to live at the massively unsustainable consumption level of the United States, have been created.

    Empowerment and education of women is seen as the primary solution to this impending disaster. Despite advances in contraceptive methods, many pregnancies are unplanned even in advanced societies. However, population growth is greatest in patriarchal societies where women are uneducated and disempowered. If fertility rates can be reduced and the present insatiable urge for growth be curbed, the concepts of Mother Earth and women as agents of global survival are twinned.
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      • May 2011 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Ethiopia
      • Sweden
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