Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

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A collective change in energy use faces the hegemony of individualist monopolies hellbent on preserving current methods of profit. Capitalism is impressive in its failure to deal with the ultimate "externality", the environment. (Well, the other major externality is poor people, but Capitalist myths can distract sheeple with some human nature/ahistorical garble, and oh look, the new iPhone!). One solution is surprisingly obvious... Operation Great Wall" was conducted by the UNHCR to bury Godzilla alive, utilizing about 2,000 nuclear bombs, which sealed the monster under the Himalayas, and Godzilla temporarily ceased its activity. While he was trapped underground for a year, Godzilla fed on the molten magma and accumulated energy from it. And you can add to the list, not the least of which is the West’s refusal to take any of this very seriously. And in the US 2016 Presidential race? Almost completely ignored. No one wants to talk about this (dying) elephant in the room. Big biz owns the media, owns congress, here in the US, at least, and we have as possible President Trump who insists climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. So as usual, insanity prevails. Today (literally today) the Paris Accord signed by the EU is a tiny step forward as we also see Haiti again thrashed by another 145 mph hurricane. Being extremely hostile nature, possessing rather calm eyes, a towering size, small head compared to body, high intelligence to outwit humanity, smaller but powerful clone being portrayed as the initial primal enemy, adapting to overcome its weakness.

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What I have to say about this book is very simple: Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." We've got a lot of work to do if we're going to survive on this Eaarth, but most of it needs to be done close to home. Small, not big; dispersed, not centralized."

That was approximately in the mid-eighties. Few years after the AIDS spread around the world. It was also the time when my handsome brother was egging us, his 3 siblings, to pray the Holy Rosary every day. Now and even then, he has a strong influence on me, so I got into the habit. Then the 7.9 Cabanatuan earthquake hit the Philippines in 1990. The year after Mt. Pinatubo erupted spewing ash in almost half of the globe. Then just after few months, the deadliest typhoon, Uring hit the country killing 8,000 Filipinos. Somewhere along the way, I stopped praying, I thought it was not working.

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Eaarth, rather than being merely unsettling, is straight-up frightening. The compelling premise is that we have pumped too much carbon into the atmosphere at this point to halt climate change. Even if we stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, the climate has already changed. The changing of the climate is global, so we've refurbished the entire planet. And not in a good way. Godzilla Earth then appeared in the 2017 film, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, where he acted as the overarching antagonist, having been awoken in the film's ending moments. At that time, US Army situated strong anti-kaiju defense lines on Los Angeles, but a charged particle beam Godzilla shot on Varan produced a powerful EMP, crushing all of the city's weaponry and electronic functionality. Ecological disasters are happening with more and more frequency. They are not random events happening more often, either; they are systematic responses to a planet under duress. The polar caps, the rainforest, the ozone layer, the Gulf region: are all connected geologically, and so are the extreme weather events we are seeing.Much like the MUTOs from Godzilla, this incarnation of Godzilla is able to generate and discharge an EMP when shooting his iconic beam. This ability was passed onto the Servum. Godzilla's EMP is strong enough to destroy any normal electronics including cars and shelters instantly, and even specialized electronics for military usages will stop functioning at close range. Bilusaludos later provided technology to improve anti-EMP functions for humanity. Furthermore, our collective responses to this are predictably failing. Governments have ignored or underestimated the problems, and solutions (reduce carbon levels to 550 parts per million) are incorrect by almost half (they need to be 350… and we are already at 360). So slowing growth is not an option: we need to _reverse_ growth. What is the likelihood of that?

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About midway through reading this book, I had this weird feeling that I was reading a science fiction/ horror book. It reminded me of post-apocalyptic fiction in which an old text from right before the apocalypse is found and read by those living in the future. In the old text, the author is discussing a monster looming on the horizon which is almost completely ignored by everyone until the monster is upon them. That pretty much sums up what's happening to our planet now and only a few of us are paying attention. And it's not science fiction. It should be noted that this only denotes a change in aesthetic, over a new, notable form in the vein of Fire Rodan (ファイヤーラドン , Faiyā Radon ?), and Godzilla is shown shifting between it and his more normal form during City on the Edge of Battle and The Planet Eater.Water is now more acidic. Oh yes, the red tide. We eat less and less of seashells because in some parts of the sea, the molluscs are poisonous. My wife now always asks the market vendor where the shells came from before buying them. Take heed to this plea from Barbara Kingsolver: "Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." During City on the Edge of Battle, Mulu-Elu Galu-Gu, along with Haruo devised a plan which turned the city into a deathtrap for Godzilla. This involved luring him down a set path, and then trapping him in solidified nanometal, while letting the city's railguns, and EMP harpoons cause massive damage. However, they were completely ineffective against Godzilla when he began to heat up and regenerate. So, you probably think you don't want to read this book or this review, because it is about bad news you maybe think you already know, and will include not enough good--or really new--news about imminent solutions. But I'll tell you: It's well written and important, from the world's premier climate change writer. The global population had decreased to about 522 million, confirmed by the Global/Earth Union and estimated to be 700 million in total in the 16 years since Godzilla's first appearance. Humanity was totally cornered in terms of both potentially habitable areas and population density. Thus, with their population dwindling in less than the twenty thousands, humanity was forced to abandon the planet even if leaving the majority of the planet's population, around 700 million people, behind.

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This Godzilla also looks like he has exposed musculature over his entire body in a manner similar to the 2016 Godzilla. However, this Godzilla deviates from looking like pure muscle, and instead bears more of a likeness towards the roots of plants, with moss-like details being prevalent on his feet as well. Oddly enough, this Godzilla's foot design is biologically similar to that of a human's: featuring a similar arch between the toe and heel (or calx pads) as well as a similar toe arrangement. The leg design is overall similar to that of the Heisei era Godzilla: featuring a simple thigh and shin build, over being digitigrade. The torso resembles that of the GMK Godzilla, along with some of the 2014 Godzilla incarnation’s characteristics. The body cells of Godzilla function like the coils of magnets, enabling him to produce strong electromagnetic fields, absorb electromagnetic waves, and produce an "Asymmetric Permeable Shield" under the skin by using electromagnetic nanomaterials. Despite that, Void Ghidorah was still able to pass through the shield and drain Earth's energy. In the years following, a detailed plan to destroy the monster was presented in a meeting on the Aratrum, with Haruo detailing a potential weakness in his shielding, which could be used to destroy him. Here, Godzilla's regeneration was also brought up. The idea of the monster multiplying in the time since humanity left the planet was also established. An idea that, while initially dismissed, turned out to be true. Don’t elect Trump, a climate change denier that vows to reverse all moves Obama has made and resurrect Big Coal. That would be bad news for the planet. Trump just made a joke of himself trashing the Paris Accord as Bad for Business, of course. Trump, who with Rush and Fox News are hung on to as the anti-scientific hope of the day for the Right. Clean energy we now know is good for business. Big Oil has been lying to us for decades. The Emperor has no clothes.Godzilla was able to use his tail as a whip-like weapon, and had enough strength to destroy parts of Mechagodzilla City's diversionary lane, resulting in large pieces of shrapnel destroying buildings nearby.