Population Boom
A well-known nightmarish vision of the future: The Earth's population reaches seven billion. Dwindling resources, mountains of toxic waste, hunger and climate change-the results of overpopulation? Who says that the world's overpopulated? And who's one too many? After the box-office success of "Plastic Planet," in POPULATION BOOM curious documentary filmmaker Werner Boote travels the globe and examines a stubborn view of the world that has existed for decades. But he sees a completely different question: Who or what is driving this catastrophic vision?
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Top Cast
Farida Akther
Self
Werner Boote
Self
Benjamin Fulford
Self
Betsy Hartmann
Self
Hu Hongtao
Self
Francis Kamakia
Self
Ban Ki-moon
Self
John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
Wolfgang Lutz
Self
Enrique Mendoza Morales
Self
Ndirangu Mwaura
Self
Obadias Ndaba
Self
Babatunde Osotimehin
Self
David Rockefeller
Self (archive footage)
Aslam Shaikh
Self
Suzuki Tadashi
Self
Ted Turner
Self
Wang Wenjun
Self
Zhenming Xie
Self
Crew
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