As men drive forward in fear
\nA machine bleep bleep’s a warning – slow!
\nDanger is where no danger does appear
\nHere is a place where no farther man should go.<\/p>\n
Two dogs barking, race along a pavement
\nAs cows contentedly graze as before in the fields
\nNature survives, all beasts in bliss and content
\nOnly mankind to radiations ravages does yield…<\/p>\n
I recently was watching on YouTube some Japanese journalists who drove to the Fukushima plant, and who marvelled at the lack of manpower to stop people returning inside the excusion zone. The other startling thing was just how nature survived, looked as normal as ever. The message seems to be, man may destory the world, but only for himself. Nature will continue without mankind.<\/em>
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