Darwin's Nightmare

No, this not going to be another post with me ranting on and on about the cro-mags in the anti-evolution movement - rather it is a post about a documentary that everybody should be told to sit down and watch if they want to understand a little bit more about the shit that human beings are capable of doing to others.

Darwin's Nightmare starts off as a documentary about Nile perch killing off the native fishes of Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It slowly evolves into a documentary about the injustices of globalization, the horrifying poverty and disease in Africa, and illegal arms smuggling.

There is no narrator in the film, the people who appear tell their own stories. They come across as tragic but at the same time tenacious and brave. It now appears that their bravery may be costing them as the government of Tanzania is harrasing them for appearing in the film.

Please try to see this documentary if you can. You'll never look at your fish fillets in quite the same way ever again.