08
Jun
4 out of 5 wild things prefer nuclear disaster to rush hour
Wildlife populates Chernobyl site - CNN.com
Dense forests have reclaimed farm fields and apartment house courtyards. Residents, visitors and some biologists report seeing wildlife — including moose and lynx — rarely sighted in the rest of Europe. Some birds even nest inside the cracked concrete sarcophagus shielding the shattered remains of the reactor itself.
It’s interesting (in an appalling way) that wildlife and plants cope with massive radiation better than they cope with everyday human activity. Ordinary people going about their ordinary lives are orders of magnitude worse for our companion species than the worst nuclear disaster we’ve yet served up.
