Global warming and extreme weather events, the world economy in crisis, seemingly unending wars and the threat of nuclear weapons, it really does seem as if we are living in the end days!
Yet I have great faith in the planets natural ability to heal itself. The worst nuclear event in history Chernobyl caused all life in the exclusion zone animal and plant to die but since then and due to the areas abandonment by humans wildlife has flourished.
In the past 20 or so year since the disaster animals such as bear and lynx virtually extinct in much of Europe and not present before the disaster were able to move in and make themselves at home even thriving in the most radioactive areas.
Many bird species nest successfully in the hastily erected and now crumbling protective sarcophagus and even fungi grows on the reactor walls.
Life has survived vast changes in the climate from the vast desert of the ancient super continent Pangea to the coldest ice age and will undoubtedly continue to do so.
No matter how out of control the current situation gets life will survive in some form or another. It just remains to be seen whether we are clever enough and...