Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

2011 FESTIVAL
53 min.
Filmmaker: Joyce Johnson.
The population is turning 7 billion in 2011. Mother breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that silently fuels our most pressing environmental, humanitarian and social crises – population growth. Population was once at the top of the international agenda, dominating the first Earth Day. 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. Yet it is an issue we cannot afford to ignore.