The events in Pakistan truly are an amazing tragedy. My question now is: with the number of natural disasters this year, with the amazing losses of life involved, surely now people will realise that how we humans treat the environment has a great impact on what happens? I like to think of it like this - eat too many sweets, get pimples.
Oh, yes I couldn't leave without taking a swipe at smh.com who obviously think there are a lot more important things going on in the world, the earthquake being shoved into 'the world' section, way beneath Big Kim 'Is it really that bad if he didn't go to so many barbeques' Beazley and those silly twits who tried to smuggle drugs out of Bali.
The increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes may be influenced by global warming, but unfortunately earthquakes and their consequences just happen.
Just happen? Sounds slightly ominous that. I think I posted a week or two back about how conceptions of 'God' have shifted historically according to what we knew or understood. I think everything on the earth is interconnected in some way and just because we don't know the why of something, doesn't mean that there isn't one. Prefixed by stating categorically that I'm no scientist, if earthquakes have something to do with shifting plates in the earth, could the human activities of mining and stuff like that not have some kind of impact on the occurrence of these 'natural' distasters?
I suppose it's possible, but the plates have been moving for time in eternity, and the forces are so immense that anything we do is not likely to influence them one way or the other.