Mother caring for 7 billion

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion not only focuses on the impact of consumption and resource depletion, but it also shows that empowering women worldwide is a critical step to solve the environmental, social and humanitarian crises that stem from population growth. In the film we meet Beth – a loving mother, a child-rights activist and a member of a very large American family of 12. Galvanized by the inequity of her own impact and her concern for the world's children, Beth travels to Ethiopia wanting to learn firsthand from people who are making a difference. There she meets a young woman Zinet, living in extreme poverty, who, against all odds, found the courage to break free from thousand-year-old-cultural barriers by refusing to get married young and going to school.