Will You Still Love Me

Some events that shook me this week. Events of my lifetime...and I go back in time to remember my onetime favourite, and I am hearing it again.

Dawin's Nightmare

It all started when I bought a pack of Victoria Niles Perch for my weekend lunch. I was fascinated to pick this in a US supermarket, and was thrilled to find an African fish after a long time. As you know many of the frozen sea food in US supermarket are from South East Asia and China. As a connoisseur of fish and seafood, I was ever enthusiastic for the rich taste I was told this fish had. Well,truly it was delicious, and I had a wholesome weekend meal

Now, that was not what I wanted to say here. As a consumer in global economy, and as a believer in globalization, it was shocking to discover the hidden side of this globalization. After the meal, I watched DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE by Hubert Sauper . It was very disheartening to see the over exploitation of natural resources and what a combination of greed, opportunism and poor regulation can lead to. There is blame every where, and no one to be held responsible.

In the words of Mkono, the leader of the fishing camp and a character in the documentary " God unfortunately created the world and he invested some limited natural resources. Therefore, people tend to scramble for this natural resource and that what is happening today..formerly there was a scramble for Africa..a scramble for land..but now...there is a scramble for natural resource....who is to get..and who is to miss...and that is the law of the jungle...those that are strong and tough has the chance of surviving..more than the weak one..when we say the stronger..may be we start viewing the Europeans..because they are the people who own the IMF, World Bank, the people who own the world trade.."

The words of Mkono is indeed some food for thought.

fish!