'Covid-19 may have emerged to play a role to help restore the balance between nature and humankind.'
The air was surprisingly clear – in Tokyo, I had never experienced such air quality before. The streets were almost empty. Dogs with their owners, and cats by themselves, were walking peacefully. Various flowers of the season were in brilliant bloom.
The legendary animated film had an introductory scrolling message which can be translated as: “One thousand years have passed since mega-industrial civilisation collapsed. Barren land is now filled with rust and ceramic fragments and the sea is rotten. Humankind, having already fallen into decline, finds its very existence under threat from what is called the Sea of Corruption, a forest of monstrous fungal plants that emit toxic miasma.
The world of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, where humankind is exposed to the threat of toxic miasma, uncannily resembles our real world today, where the novel coronavirus pandemic has been raging for months now. In both of the different worlds, humans face an invisible fear. Humans are helpless in protecting themselves as long as the threat cannot be seen.
In the fictitious narrative, an important secret is hidden. The Sea of Corruption actually has the ability to purify and resuscitate nature, which has been heavily damaged and polluted by humankind. The polluted land surface is being purified by the forest in a process that requires an immeasurably long amount of time. The miasma is a side effect of that process.
Nausicaa, for her part, tries to talk residents of the village into coexisting with the Sea of Corruption and Omu creatures, no matter how dangerous and uncertain such a choice can be. I think it is advisable to face a viral infection with a view to restoring a balance, instead of simply abhorring the virus and fearing the spread of disease.
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