Last week I finished watching the documentary series Our Planet on Netflix. A documentary that tells us about the wonders of our planet, but also does not talk about how we are ending it, if we do not take drastic and immediate measures.
The last chapter of this documentary is dedicated to the forests that are around the world, how important they are to us and how seriously endangered they are. The last part of this chapter talks about Chernobyl and the destruction caused by the environmental disaster that occurred on 25 April 1986. The radioactive contamination was so brutal that it killed the life around the plant and spread to 120 kilometres around it.
For this reason, the entire human population was evacuated, the concrete sarcophagus was built, which closed off the main reactor and no human has lived there for 33 years. They abandoned everything and left it to nature to resolve their survival in the area.
Nature took sides and began to fight against the disaster produced by men, it adapted to the conditions of the environment and, to this day, the exclusion zone of Chernobyl is a great forest in which life is everywhere. The wolves have returned, the Przewalski horse, which was on the edge of the extension, eagles, falcons, owls, wild boars, bison, squirrels and more than 400 species of vertebrates and thousands of plants that have given life even extraordinary forest.
This shows that nature has an incredible resilience, that if we leave it, it is capable of recovering even in the most extreme conditions such as Chernobyl, because nature has been on this earth for millions of years and knows how to act to overcome the worst of disasters.
Then we must take note. All is not lost. We must make room for nature so that our planet becomes more sustainable and enables us and future societies to live. There is no other way.
