Population: 8 Billion

Population: 8 Billion is a dystopian, semi-live action, post apocalyptic, social action film made to raise awareness and action about the devestating impacts of human overpopulation. It was made by Walt Disney Pictures and Universial Studios in March 3, 2021, and first aired as a Netflix original film, then on hulu and other streaming services. The entire movie takes place and is filmed in Clayton, Georgia.

Plot
A young lady, Melanie, is a victim of religious abuse by her conservative christian parents in Clayton, Georgia. The parents frequently whip her with a wooden spoon, brainwash her into the Christian purity movement and keep her “feminine“ by not teaching her science, math, or anything ”masculine” at all. Melanie, while in car with her parents to the local grocery store, end up in a car accident and Melanie is the only survivor. Melanie is taken to a filthy, germ filled foster home with no bed to sleep in.

Melanie goes through intensive academic training and therapy at the foster home with all the other kids, luckily, which has insurance paying for it. Melanie shows off her true colors as a masculine, asexual, NB individual who befriends the other children. She changes her pronouns to gender neutral they/their/them.

Howeve, as Melanie and their friends enjoy planting trees to donate to a nursery, on the news there is a report of global overpopulation reaching 8 billion. The news cites mega families, quiverfulls, lack of contraceptives, lack of birth control, and lack of proper climate education as huge factors.

As Melanie attends camp, their group and Melanie is all wheezing and coughing up phlegm, and her closest camp friend, a teenage boy named Buckeye, also spots earless deer, dead birds, and gaunt, rib caged bobcats with nothing to eat. Buckeye kindly feeds the bobcats and deer by throwing them some food.

Melanie and their camp cannot fish or even step into the dirty lake, infested with algae, flesh eating bacteria and plastic, with no fish in it. The sky is grey and foggy, filled with toxic gas. The plant life has mutated and grown bigger to absorb more CO2. The camp has a surplus of food from the grocery store, however the new food all tastes weird and has strange carcinogen warning labels on all of it, even the apples and pasta.