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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

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That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend--think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems--but the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We can't rely on old habits any longer. This incarnation of Godzilla is the largest incarnation of the monster yet, coming in at an approximate 318 meters in height, or 1043.31 feet. This dwarfs even Shin Godzilla's incarnation of the monster, and the Marvel incarnation, the former being 118.5 meters (approximately 389 feet) tall, and the latter being 184 meters (about 603 feet) tall.

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This Godzilla shares a roar with the Millennium series' Godzilla incarnations, having used the roar as he finally awakens. He, like Filius also emitted low growling and snarling noises.When concentrating powerful plasma from his fins, Godzilla sparks his tail and produces a plasma blade extending for 600 meters that reduces anything it touches to ash. 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."

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Kamoebas IV's corpse was found on Odo Island on May 29, 2030, and this was the first cross between humanity and Godzilla. Kyohei Yamane, a professor of Strategic Biology named the monster Gojira after 呉爾羅, legendary dragon god of the island.Many fans pointed out similarities of this incarnation of Godzilla with Death Saurer and Gojulas series (Gojulas, King Gojulas, Gojulas Giga, etc.) from the Zoids franchise, especially with the former while the latter is based on Godzilla. There is also a hypothesis that Mechagodzilla in 1993 was inspired by King Gojulas. These include: 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. 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. Even though it’s been over 20,000 years, Godzilla has continued to live and evolve since then, leaving most of humanity, like Martin and Mori, to believe that he may possibly be immortal. 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.

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Living on Eaarth means living without economic growth, and this means that the huge amount of debt that we have (not primarily government debt, by the way) just isn't going to be repaid, and our economy is going to come crashing to a halt. It means a completely different economic system and a completely different way of life. Try gardening. One of the most interesting parts of Eaarth explains how Brits produced food by turning a lot of urban areas into little gardens. Humanity speculated that Godzilla may possess an electromagnetic booster due to his non-ordinary swimming capability including quiescence and speed which stopped submarines from being able to keep up with him. 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. 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."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.” — Barbara Kingsolver, author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle According to the director, Godzilla's physique was based on a sumo wrestler, depicting "a beautiful form of sumo". This Godzilla made his first formal appearance in the prequel novel, Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse, where it's detailed how Godzilla arose in 2030 and proceeded to lay waste to both humanity and the planet's monster population over the course of 18 years. The concept for Godzilla being able to change ecosystems and environments completely is akin to works by the same scriptwriter of this film such as Kamen Rider Gaim and Saya no Uta.

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