Makes me think of Mt. St. Helens. It was completely desolate after the big explosion. But now a lot of plants have re-started.
To me it’s a theology lesson. God’s life-giving love breaks through wherever and whenever it possibly can.
After forest fires, etc, the ground gets nitrogen enrichment, and is then fit for growing plants again.
At least, that’s one theory I remember reading/hearing.
Some people/scientists say the Earth is billions of years old - but we humans are only a few ‘hundred thousand’ years old. We have no power capable of destroying what has lasted for ‘billions’ of years.
I think the problem is that nature doesn’t repair itself AS QUICKLY as we humans would like for it to.
Even Chernobyl will be safe and wonderful someday....
not in MY lifetime though.