#Godzilla Is a #RadicalEnvironmentalist

'Godzilla vs the #SmogMonster' shows Japan grappling with its runaway #pollution problem in the 1970s. It also offered a way forward.

by Daniel Oberhaus
September 22, 2017,

"'When Godzilla was first released, it was really intended as a political statement,' William Tsutsui, the president of Hendrix College and a renowned Japanologist, told me over the phone. 'Today we're used to Godzilla as sort of kiddie fare, but the director saw this as a meaningful statement on #nuclear war and the threat of #technology to the #natural #environment.""

https://www.vice.com/en/article/kz7w9w/godzilla-is-a-radical-environmentalist

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