Sprotchymon wrote:
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When I first looked at this, I was a bit puzzled since Bennett, a dude I know damn well believes in climate change, was depicting both climate change and the chief alternative as monsters. Then I realized why he chose the ones he chose.
Godzilla isn't just a big ol' monster, he's a direct cause of man's destructive tendencies, in this case nuclear testing. He's big, he's unstoppable and sooner or later you're going to have to face responsibility for it.
Frankenstein's Monster might look scary all done up in the Universal makeup, but he's a creature unfairly demonized by an unknowing and uncaring populace. He's also capable of a whole lot less destruction than Godzilla, but that's kind of obvious.
Seriously, Bennett is the master of metaphors. The guy can say a hell of a lot with just pictures in a medium where an artist's default status is hamhanded. His metaphors make sense too- it's a unique experience seeing a cartoon where Frankenstein doesn't symbolize some horrible abomination of science.
I guess I wasn't puzzled when I saw it, I thought it was clever as you have realized. I mean, global warming is a monstrous threat...I think you're too used to the meme of pretending it doesn't exist, and...that doesn't even make sense in this context. I think the metaphor of the Monster as nukepowah is very two-sided and apt. You can't deny that nuke has caused serious issues, but they were preventable, and at least some consider the benefits outweigh the bad.
I mean, seriously. I find it hard to believe that the American public can say, "Well, having that nukepile buried under the earth for a few million years is awful for the future of the planet!" while we actually have a company in Alaska that...I really wish I were joking...wishes to build a gigantic lake of sulfuric acid and toxins in a remote part of Alaska...right next to the prime salmon breeding area for, like, the whole state...just to get some gold:
"That waste rock material, along with allowed discharge chemicals, would be stored (forever) in two artificial lakes behind massive earthen dams. The largest of the dams containing these lakes would be 740 feet (230 m) tall and 4.3 miles (6.9 km) long."
Shit, at least the nuke-kruft has a fucking half-life!
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