After the creatures accidentally escape, it's up to Scamander to try to get them back before the wizarding authorities catch him, and before Wizard / Muggle relations become any more strained as a
result of potential catastrophe.
In that place whose history, in its most objective rendering, read like a conflation of myth, magic and madness, and where recent events were so turbulent and improbable that any future, or no future, seemed possible, each sign was seen as an
omen of potential catastrophe.
And with Russia blazing the trail and managing the business, companies like BP, Shell, and Exxon will be partly shielded from the PR
storm of a potential catastrophe, and will likely be eager to participate.
The doomsday industry, consisting, in part, of political activists and journalists, specializes in warning
us of potential catastrophes.