DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE

[sliprockdoc]

darwin's theory is adaptation, and the movie is not about adaptation, but about intervention that destroys adaptation. so the title should be.....aliens destroy darwins theory.....but the film is about the ruthlessness of people, of banks, how money and affluence leads to exploitation, or perhaps how exploitation leads to affluence. bad title, great movie. the director has also produced other great videos about the misery of life on earth.

[speakswahilidammit]

If Nile Perch is alien to the lake (which I accept), and it's destroying the natural cichlid fish population, and that leads to more bilharzia-transmitting snails surviving, causing rampant bilharzia among the people, then killing Perch can't be a bad thing. But do the big fish factories want to do themselves out of business? It seems strange, complaining about over fishing of Perch, while bemoaning the loss of nearly every other fish type, for which they're largely responsible.

[throbule]

You could make it clear that this small clip is from a documentary made by Austrian director, Hubert Sauper - and it must be seen in full to see the unbelievable tragedy that has destroyed half a country.

Europe has a lot to answer for their complicity in the horror that has killed thousands of people and brought great suffering.

Please credit the director: Hubert Sauper

Hubert Sauper is a great friend to Africa and your clip would not exist without him.

Thanks a lot.

[Swaginrags]

stupid mcdonalds

[maxheedrum]

I got bad news for every one Africa is DOOMED!!!

[starcraftfan9112012]

great movie important issues for all peoples not just africa as the west is the cause of the ecosystem devastation.

[jamesdeansahara]

hello ehm excuse me... tigerone is absolutely DAMN right. so, okay deadking, the fish very likely made 'some big ass fillet', but it's a SAD thing. much like the companies that sell frozen chicken to west africa. those big companies... would likely make some big ass CEO fillet, wouldn't they? ^^ 'cause most of what they call 'development' in fact is meant to enslave people. but africa could VERY WELL get up on her feet all by herself.

[deadking90]

now i bet that made some big ass fillets of fish

[tigerone1970]

In fact, this foreign owned fish factory is a prime example of the IMF version of 'development'. Foreign businesses own the economy so they can 'efficiently allocate capital'.

There is absolutely no thought given to the development of local businesses, land reform (redistribution, not simply security of tenure reform).

If the land was redistributed to African farmers, and they were supported through government services and cooperatives, no one would go hungry in Africa.

[speakswahilidammit]

@tigerone1970 I agree wholeheartedly.

[JAKEHARRIS281]

@tigerone1970 What does this movie have to do with Charles Darwin?

[looseneck]

@JAKEHARRIS281 It doesn't directly, its saying that the problem is catastrophic and goes against Darwin's theory of evolution.

[jerrdead]

I saw this film just now and I can`t believe what I saw. And I`m not talking only about the ecological catastrophe! A few bastards are profiting from the fish-industry sending a hundreds of tons to europe and japan, where there is enough of food and people in tanzania die every day from famine....people there eat the fishing waste...unbelievable.What tanzanian governement is doing?what the thinking people(if there are some) in tanzania are doing? sending the un aid there?-why??????????

[tigerone1970]

All good points. The problem (in 500 characters), is:

1) Foreign ownership of their economies

2) No stimulation of indigenous ownership of businesses or land

3) Centralisation of the government, leading to concentration of power in the capital, pres. and ministries, instead of local government.

4) No more capacity building - universal healthcare and education

A lot of this can be blamed on the IMF ideology of neoliberal economics - deregulation, privatisation, and 'free markets'.

[southanjuna]

@tigerone1970 In short: Our Money System is the problem. An Equal Money System and an Equal Labor System is the solution.

[ultimatom]

@jerrdead what are you doing in your country to stop this?Dont blame Tanzania,first blame yourself then the others.You are a thinking person,do something!!

[gazlivy]

cracas cracas 3 million pepol die from aids each year in africa

[JessRam2o1]

I saw this film for a Sociology of International Development Course. I agree... it's one of the most shocking documentaries I've ever seen. I encourage the world to watch it, learn from it, and do something in their lives to help people triumph over situations like this.

[therealTOTOfan]

we saw this film in school with our geography teacher.. it'S a shoking film!! when the airplane arrives to get the fishes, the airplane delivers weapons into the country!!!!!! instead of food or aid...

one day, the fish will be exterminated and all the ppl there will have no future...

[Spennis1982]

This is the most horryfying documentary I have seen. I recommend it strongly, especially too everyone who complain in the west about "how poor their life is."

[speakswahilidammit]

@Spennis1982 Agreed!

[Milt0nBradley]

wow that guy sharpening the knife at 0:55 looks insane

[RanchoCoral]

Yeah, he looks like he wants to filet the camera guy(us).

[TROX3L]

haha, you can still hear him going at it after the camera shows from the office.