RE: Can we prevent natural disasters?
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The world has done a fairly good job of responding to natural disasters. What is happening is that since millions of people now have high quality cameras; So, we are seeing more of the disasters that occur. It looks like there are more disasters, when in fact we are just seeing more things.
BTW, with more and more people on the planet, we should expect to see more and more people in harms way. The question is the percent of people in harms way.
One really strange thing that changed in my life is that, when I was a kid, it is was usually religious zealots running around saying the modern world is doomed for our collective material sins. The scientists repeated in unison that change was gradual.
Today people claiming to be scientists are running around saying that mankind is doomed for our collective sins and the religious zealots are the ones more likely to repeat the line that the status quo is the will of God.
BTW, I am less fearful of natural disaster than I am of man made disaster. The governments and big businesses of the world seem to be out of hand. Big governments and big business have a long history of doing things that harm people.