Nature does not care if there are six billion humans on the planet or none. It still does what it does. There may be centuries between its excesses, but these excesses are inevitable. There are ghost settlements in this country due to the new arrivals assuming that the prevailing hospitable conditions were permanent.
Sitting on top of nature’s dynamic are too many humans living in complex infrastructure which was built on the assumption that nature will not change. We call the inevitable outcomes “disasters” - as if they should never have happened.
There would have been a bigger flood in the past. It may have been five centuries ago. No tarred roads collapsed. No cars were swept away. No carpets were ruined. The inhabitants of that area that is now South-Eastern Queensland simply stood on high ground and watched the water flow past.
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If there was less baloney surrounding the floods and fires in this country, I would care. But I find the opportunism too annoying for there to be room for any other feeling.
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