Mother: Caring for 7 Billion Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Documentary, News
Director(s): Christophe Fauchere
Production: Ayngaran International
 
IMDB:
7.7
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
60 min
Website
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world today is

the demand for food,

now driven by three forces;

one is population growth,

the second is rising affluence,

2-3 billion people

trying to move up the food chain

consuming more grain intensive

livestock products,

and the conversion of grain

into fuel for cars.

The grain required

to fill a 25 gallon SUV tank

with Ethanol,

would feed one person for a year.

Norman Borlaug,

who won the Nobel peace

prize in 1972

for bringing about the

Green Revolution.

He saw

the Green Revolution as a way of

buying, maybe thirty years,

in order to,

solve the population problem

and he said if we don't do that,

we're going to have

a terrible situation.

And the fact that we're peaking

in oil production,

which is a key aspect of agriculture

almost everywhere,

availability of food globally

is going to plummet.

The big issue

is going to be water.

We see in some countries now, where

farmers are using virtually all

the technologies available

to raise yields.

The market realizes that

things are tightening up.

As one observer said,

"Land has become the new gold.

And the more affluent

importing countries

like China, like South Korea

and even India now

are acquiring large chunks of land

around the world.

It's enormous in scope.

Rising food prices,

combined with rising unemployment,

have sparked riots and

political unrest.

Every year,

there are about 78 million

more people

living on the planet.

That's about 220,000

people everyday

competing for both natural resources

and for economic opportunities.

Stretching further the capacity

of the world to sustain us.

More than half of the world

population,

the majority in the developing world,

is under the age of 28

and is either at,

or will be at, a reproductive age

in the next few years.

Depending on the kind of choices

these youth will take,

humanity,

according to the UN projections,

could be as low as 8 billion

or as high as 10.5 billion by 2050.

A variance that could

make all the difference

as we are beginning to reach

many thresholds on the planet.

Population doesn't turn

around on a dime.

Population is continuing

to grow,

there's a momentum in

population today.

Even if...

all the couples in the world

were to decide today

that they were not going to have

more than two children

it's estimated that world population

would continue to grow

to about 8 billion.

That momentum means that

we have got to,

under almost any circumstances,

continue to find ways to feed

that many people.

Loulou we have it ready. You guys can

eat at the little table.

I think when I grew up and...

met JP, who is my

husband and

we were going to have kids

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