And can populations of wild animals that have proliferated since the disaster be controlled in a way that makes coexistence with humans possible?
Evidence of the relentless march of the natural world is everywhere in Okuma and other communities located in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.
The plant, which is now being decommissioned, suffered a triple meltdown after tsunami waves knocked out its backup power supply, sending large quantities of radiation into the atmosphere.
Gardens have become jungles and homes places of nocturnal refuge – and food – for the wild boar, raccoons and black bears that now have free rein to roam streets long deprived of artificial light.
‘Mazin‘ how fast nature returns when just left alone to do so.
Which does lead to a thought. We’ve people demanding that humanity restreat and leave vast areas just for wildlife. Hmm, well, OK. But given the way fertility rates are going this is going to happen over the next century and two anyway. We don;t actually have to “do” anything, just carry on having as few kiddies as we do and it will happen anyway.
And can populations of wild animals that have proliferated since the disaster be controlled in a way that makes coexistence with humans possible?
I have to admit Tim that without the Chernobyl reference this sentence made me thinking you were referring to an article regarding the UK since the Blair government…
“can populations of wild animals that have proliferated since the disaster be controlled in a way that makes coexistence with humans possible?”
Yes. Shoot them all.
Can the populations of humans be controlled so that coexistence with the indigenous population of animals is possible?
Yep. Rewilding isn’t about helping animals; it’s about destroying habitat for humanity.
With commies, the issue is never the issue.
Nature tends not to be nice to minority species. Withut human intervention a dominant species (tree, animal, insect) reduces the variety of all the rest.
Automatic re-wilding through population decline seems fine in theory, but what about the value of my house?!!!!
You don’t seem to have noticed Tim but populations are rising in Europe. Europeans may be havin fewer children but the activities of non-Europeans are more than making up for it. And going by what I’ve seen the future of wildlife is most likely being eaten by them.
And this exposes the fundamental insanity of Green Net Zero. Never mind the money; we piss away the resources we’ll need to cope with a world in which a rapidly shrinking human population dominated by the old, useless Africans, and muslims will once again be subject to alpha predators.
Look at the black bear problem in Japan, which leads the way, as ever.
“can populations of wild animals that have proliferated since the disaster be controlled in a way that makes coexistence with humans possible?”
The bears, boars, macaques, and raccoons have always been there… Just in the mountain forests no-one uses and are…of very little use for humans.
Else the Japs would have cultivated them centuries ago already….
It’s not that there’s suddenly that much more of them… They’ve simply moved in, in places they *usually* avoided.
Fukushima and surrounds has *always* been bear ‘n boar country, and raccoons and macaques really don’t care all that much about humans around. They love our bins though….
So yeah… lots of waffle and pantytwisting, and the Pushing of the Usual Environment Buttons, but “reclaiming by Nature”? Not so much.
In Britain the plan is to substitute wild humans for wild animals.