http://www.motherthefilm.com/trailer
This film dares to talk about the “elephant in the room” of the growing human population – but dares to because it brings an honest, compasionate message. We need to address rising human population levels as their associated consumption is not sustaianble on one planet, and that we can slow the rise simply through education of girls, leading to their empowerment to control their family size.
It doesn’t appear to be on general release, but I hope word will spread so that many more men and women can hear it’s important message and realise that population issues need not be controversial if we take the right approach.
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Posted by How can having a child be sustainable? « Green Mum in Geneva on 3 July 2011 at 21:39
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