Hairless, Talking Monkeys
The Chernobyl Legacy.
These pictures are really awful and I'm not saying that as a sort of reverse psychology ploy to get you to watch. If you don't have the stomach for it, don't look. Really.
That said, I think everyone should take a look. It's a photo presentation with narrative by the photographer, Paul Fusco. The pictures are of people, mostly children, who have suffered as a result of the reactor meltdown at Chernobyl. Twenty years later, the children of the region of Belarus are horribly deformed, some suffering daily in unbearable pain, none of them able to live any sort of normal life.
The reason I think everyone should take a look at this is because it's a sobering reminder of what we're capable of. More importantly, it's a sobering reminder of the responsibility we're not able to handle.
Kind of morbid and depressing, but something I thought important enough to bring up. Maybe in 2007 we'll put a little more thought into our decisions. Maybe we'll have a little more consideration for those around us as well as for ourselves. Maybe in 2007 we'll take a step toward enlightenment instead of a step backward into foolishness and stupidity. Maybe we'll aspire to be something greater than ourselves.
I'm not putting any money on it but, hey...a guy can hope.
These pictures are really awful and I'm not saying that as a sort of reverse psychology ploy to get you to watch. If you don't have the stomach for it, don't look. Really.
That said, I think everyone should take a look. It's a photo presentation with narrative by the photographer, Paul Fusco. The pictures are of people, mostly children, who have suffered as a result of the reactor meltdown at Chernobyl. Twenty years later, the children of the region of Belarus are horribly deformed, some suffering daily in unbearable pain, none of them able to live any sort of normal life.
The reason I think everyone should take a look at this is because it's a sobering reminder of what we're capable of. More importantly, it's a sobering reminder of the responsibility we're not able to handle.
Kind of morbid and depressing, but something I thought important enough to bring up. Maybe in 2007 we'll put a little more thought into our decisions. Maybe we'll have a little more consideration for those around us as well as for ourselves. Maybe in 2007 we'll take a step toward enlightenment instead of a step backward into foolishness and stupidity. Maybe we'll aspire to be something greater than ourselves.
I'm not putting any money on it but, hey...a guy can hope.
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