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Raymond Burr tells us the moral of the Godzilla fable
"Nature has a way sometimes of reminding man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up the terrible offsprings of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences."
(And you thought it was just a silly monster movie!)
Is he talking about the betel nut growers,
the builders, government officials, people who don't
give much of anything they do a second thought, ...?
Perhaps the moral is applicable here, as well.
From the TVBS-N series "The Changed Land" (a loose translation of what you see at the top right-hand side of the screen image).
These mountains used to be covered with green.
Another formerly verdant mountainside.
These two images were shot in the Kuohsing Mountainous Region. Notice the betel nut palms in both images.
Read what I wrote a long time ago about betel nut
on the Mondo Taiwan - Culture page.
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