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What Chernobyl has to teach us about climate change
The tale of a TV show, obsession and apocalypse
It started with the bubbler pools.
Up until that scene, that moment, this was a great show, a well-cast and well-written show.
The bubbler pools changed everything.
Sounds like a term for a backyard ornament, and a thing you let your kids play in. Not something that could destroy the world.
Yet, the bubbler pools.
It’s Ulana Khomyuk’s speech that does it. She stands up in front of the executive committee managing the Chernobyl disaster, which they all keep trying to pretend is fine, and speaks.
She explains about the bubbler pools.
Two Gen Xers Watch Chernobyl
Wind back a few days to the discussion we (my partner and I) had about Chernobyl. It was available cheap on a digital download. He said he’d spent too much this month already. I said it was cheap. I wanted to see it. Everybody raved about it.
Two days later, we bought it.
We both grew up in the 80s, and were slightly too young to be aware of Chernobyl as it happened. My father visited Russia right before the coup unfolded and the Iron Curtain fell, just at the point where I started…
