I Love Natural Disasters

You should read about Stoic philosophy, it is important to remain emotionally detached at times.

 

but, ah, how is that not what this forum is and is for?

 

I agree with you there. I was blah blah back, that's what I meant and it's a shame that an Internet forum is looked at like it should be something more than that.

 

How many threads am I gonna read today and come away completely none the wiser about what the fuck is going on?

 

presumably all of them. every day.

i love seeing nature do what it does. this is not the same as seeing people hurt by being in the wrong place at the wrong time when it does.
two entirely separate things at all.

the 'developer' who knowingly builds hundreds of houses on a known flood plane, is too seldom even there at all when the creek rises,
and most of the people living there, had no idea that it would.

no i don't like seeing people killed or injured. that's just a separate thing entirely.

blaming god or nature when they are is nonsense though.

people cause that to happen by hating logic. and too often, the people who suffer are not the people who caused them to.

if the people who caused the problem were the people who suffered, that would be justice.

nature is an impartial judge.

global warming does contribute to more and more severe storms and other extreme conditions, but its not as simple to say it causes them. it is only one of many factors involved in doing so.

global warming will bring about a kind of ecopocalypse, that could, through disease, bring about a major implosion of human population.
and sea level rise is part of the mechanism, as is migration of 'vectors', i.e. disease carrying insects and of course humans and other creatures being transported from warmer climates while ill.

power generated by combustion is 40%, but transportation policy dominated by the automobile is at least another 40%. if not closer to 50% or more.
leaving less then 20% at most, for all other sources of 'greenhouse' gases combined.

it MAY be possible to make drastic changes that will reduce these impacts, but its way late in the game to expect to avoid them entirely,
and now, we have this massive resistence, with selfish economic interests on the side of it, to making even tiny changes that will at best only help a little.

there are people who deserve what they have done and are doing to the planet,
sadly they are not the vast majority who suffer as a result of their doing so.

 

It sucks when people die. Storms can be impressive. If you find that people dying in storms is in some way enjoyable, then that is a touch odd (if it's true, sounds a bit "edgier than thou" to me...).

 

Yes, nature cleans house in so many ways.....Have you ever noticed that is is usually the very poor that do not have the means to move to safer places that get hit all of the time. When I was in Palm beach , Florida,
I noticed the big strong fortresses the rich had for protection, for instance....
When natural disasters strike, I think of the animals,also....with sadness.

 

Tons of Tsunami videos on, you tube, posted from Japan.

nuthin graphic tho