radioactive boar Invading towns in southern Germany. They took a man in a wheelchair; they broke through fences, roamed the roads and cut off highway traffic; they went in droves in search of food. Police scrambled to restore order in the city center. Radioactive boars are equipped with post-apocalyptic payloads; they live after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. By feeding on radioactive plants, these animals embody the return of a catastrophe that many have tried to suppress. More than 100,000 people were evacuated from a 20-mile exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant after a reactor at Chernobyl collapsed and melted. Residents exposed to radiation suffer from radiation poisoning, leukemia and thyroid cancer. It is estimated that approximately 4,000 people may die from accident-related illnesses.
Now in the exclusion zone, among the overgrown cracked streets, a bear’s paw cuts through a decaying town. Signs of human habitation are slowly crumbling into crumbling ruins. Peeling paint on buildings and windows has lost glass. Signs slanted to show anyone their previous pertinent information about street names, grocery stores, cafe hours. In abandoned pastures, where previous crops are only sparse, native grasses turn spaces into meadows. There, stocky horses—the only subspecies that have never been domesticated—run wild in places that humans will never plant again. Shaggy bison roam the woods and fields they have known for centuries. Instead of worrying about being hunted, these animals thrive in a creepy mutant post-human wildlife sanctuary, where radiation is still 10 to 100 times higher than safe habitation. Rare species not seen in the region for hundreds of years have returned, including the Przewalski’s horse, European bison, lynx and Eurasian brown bear.
As for the radioactive boars hundreds of miles away in Germany, with their omnivorous appetites and stout snouts for scavenging food, they devour their landscape. They eat acorns, nuts and insects, and unearth truffles, tubers and mushrooms, and they absorb the highly radioactive waste that drifted downwind from the meltdown of power plants decades ago. Wild boars enter nearby towns in droves, looking for the density of food in trash cans, park litter boxes and alleys. They weigh about 400 pounds each, have tusks, have unpredictable personalities, and enjoy the right of way in urban areas. Shaggy wildness doesn’t fit in with the orderly small-town setting they’re in.
Decades later, Chernobyl disappeared from memory. The human generation has passed. But for the radioactive elements released by disasters, life is just beginning. Nuclear reactor core fires persist but are not visible. The wild boar carried it. They carry the importance of our failed technology and indifference to radioisotope life.
Maybe we should pay more attention to our fiction. Godzilla, a prehistoric marine reptile monster enhanced by nuclear radiation, reminds Japan and the rest of the world that radioactive material is a beast that is more powerful and longer-lived than humans imagined. Godzilla makes an otherwise invisible nuclear threat visible. His overall indifference to humanity makes him a suitable incarnation of radioactivity.
The Godzilla movies spawned other famous monsters, including the giant glowing moth creature Mothra, accompanied by small humanoid twins who speak on behalf of the creature.Mothra has appeared in 16 films, including Godzilla and Mothra 1964 and 1992 remakes Rebirth of MothraAmong them, like Rocky series, with many unfortunate sequels. Among the many Japanese monster movies, Mothra and Bagan Never passed the script, but it should have. Bagan is a huge multi-horned rhino with wings that protected the earth from threats thousands of years ago. Until now, Bagan has been released from glaciers melting due to global warming. As protectors of nature, monsters are starting to destroy humanity, and humanity is destroying the earth. Flocks of people face doom while others seek help. Mothra heard their cries and flew to their help. But the help was short-lived, as Bagan carried out a utterly savage attack on Mothra in what would be an epic scene for an actor in a latex costume and a puppet moth with cardboard wings. As the monster moth is defeated, everything seems to disappear. But on a remote island, an egg of a moth monster hatches and a new Mothra is born. After various plot twists and suspense, the young Mothra defeats Bagan, the protector of the earth. While it is clear that Earth needs to be saved, in order to improve the non-human world, we have problems writing scripts that do not exist on our own.like Mothra and Bagan Replay yourself over and over again. While Bagan returns time and time again, there may not be a Mothra to save humanity one day.
