Went to see the first film in Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival. The whole film was quiet, simple, following the scientist and his local helpers in Madagascar, canoeing to get to different islands and measure baobab trees. 

There was one scene that I almost cried. Some local village, the people believe that you can only take enough from the ocean to sustain yourself. If you take more than that, the god of ocean will revenge on you, the boat will sink and your fishing net will be empty. Simple, and it made me so joyful that I was moved to tears. Yet the younger migrants are burning more forests than ever being done before, threatening the baobabs and struggling themselves to have a feed. 

I was telling Wako how it made me wonder, all the problems in the western world is so superficial/superfluous. Does it matter if you earn 50,000 or 40,000 a year? It's still more than enough to make a living. And somewhere else people, maybe they have different skin colour and wear different clothes, are herding cattle, collecting fruits from baobab trees to make juice, when there is a cyclone their whole village will be destroyed and they need to take refuge in a baobab tree for a week. Yet they have beautfiul smiles, make wonderful boats and have such abundant knowledge about sailing the ocean. How touching is it! Like what Camus wrote in Outsider, I can't help feeling overwhelmed by the tender indifference of this world.