I kinda forgot about this whole blog thing, and havn't actually shared it with anyone aside from my girlfriend so time to share I think?
BBC news reported that biodiversity has fallen in the chernobyl zone, a disaster that happened in ukraine in 1986 (26th April to be precise), although of course you all knew that right? Fauna in the zone has developed various tumours, with avian species sporting tumours around the eyes, on the feet and neck. It makes you wonder if hiroshima had the same side effects (I'v not searched for any papers from back then, but I doubt there would be any?) and if the people who ordered the attack (Harry Truman) and the pilot (Paul Tibbets) thought of all of the wildlife they were destroying and possibly mutating afterwards as well as all of the human loss of life. I find it strange how someone could make those decisions, even during war, which ended up killing over 100,000 people. I know this is a strange blog post but hey, why not!
Here we have a Chernobyl victim remembrance day and everything and they used to show us a lot of documentary films at school. All everyone seems to concentrate on is people, which is understandable, but they rarely mention the huge destructive impact of the catastrophe on wildlife or what have you.
ReplyDeleteSlightly off-topic, but it's now an interesting place (if that's appropriate at all) - the whole city was simply abandoned, everyone had dropped what they were doing and just ran, so the schools were still full of bags and notebooks, bicycles and all sorts of things just lying around on the streets. Truly a ghost town. People didn't even dare go in there to steal. I imagine int's not quite like that anymore though.