This film depicts in subtext, how climate change deeply affects people so dependent on farming for every bite of food they eat and what little cash they can earn. While this film is primarily about a very bright young man who helps his family and community, the underlying conditions affecting them are apparent. It brings home why people become so desperate to leave their homeland when even basic education is denied their children and famine is staring at them with ravenous eyes.
We have so much here and somehow think we are special, blessed. But we are just the beneficiaries of ancestors who were forced by circumstances out of their homelands to come here and steal the lands of the people who had been here for thousands of years. Instead of being grateful for what we have, we sit on our largesse of goods like misters and begrudge even our own poor enough to live. Look at the tents of the homeless lining our city streets.
Yes, this film raises all of these thoughts and questions and it is marvelous how this 13y boy succeeded to help this one community. But if the rest of us sitting on spaceship Earth don't recognize soon that we are all one family dependent on our One Strange Rock we too will find out what it means to be destitute and abandoned by our elected government. Wind power indeed, a real solution and we can help by supporting the development of it and solar energy, no polluting, clean and available everywhere.