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Related: About this forumMother: Caring for 7 Billion. Watch it and learn.
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This is a very positive and optimistic informative documentary on women's rights, health care, and population. Extremely important.
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Film website: http://www.motherthefilm.com/
In honor of Earth Day the film Mother: Caring for 7 Billion is streaming free for the entire month of April!
This award-winning film was released in 2011 as the global human population reached 7 billion. The film explores the critical challenges facing life in a world of 7 billion people, challenges that persist today as population numbers continue to climb. Touching religion, gender equity, reproductive health and the environment, Mother examines the controversy and one womans journey to make sense of it.
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Mother: Caring for 7 Billion. Watch it and learn. (Original Post)
Gregorian
Apr 2015
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Unless we can figure out a way to get off this human mountain and back down to 100 million or less
GliderGuider
Apr 2015
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handmade34
(22,757 posts)1. K&R
chances are, it will be difficult to watch but bookmarking for just that
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)2. It's actually very optimistic and positive.
Thanks for reccing.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)3. K&R
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Looks wonderful and I can't wait to watch it.
Thanks for posting this!
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)4. Unless we can figure out a way to get off this human mountain and back down to 100 million or less
...within 50 years or so, any other actions we take regarding population are just designed to ease our guilt. Sweet and caring, but utterly irrelevant. How the hell do we get rid of 7.2 billion people in 50 years, humanely? Answer: We don't.
~original