A few weeks ago, I got a taste of what living in California is like. Residents of Florida are under perennial threat of hurricanes during the monsoon. Californians live under the constant threat of earthquakes. There is always a distinct possibility of a 10.5 hitting the San Andreas fault; near which I reside.
Florida got five hurricanes this past year. In the middle of the June Gloom in California, we had a week of three earthquakes and one tsunami warning. Talk about activity! The earthquakes were not major; the destruction was very minimal. Just a few evacuations here and there. But still, the threat exists. A major earthquake hits California and voila, this part of the world has another island. This thought makes me realise how small and insignificant our race is in the bigger picture!
The human race has been around for just about hundred thousand years now and we go about our daily stuff thinking we are the ultimate power on this planet and we can do as we please. Such a false pretense on our part! We constantly forget the ultimate force in this universe, that can do as it pleases without being answerable to anyone - Nature. Theologists/religious scholars call this force the Work of God and scientists break this force down to electrons, neutrons and beyond. Do as you may please, you just cannot ignore the force of nature.
There is no way we can predict, let alone prevent such catastrophes. Mother Nature does as she pleases and there is no one who can stop her from doing so!
Humans do possess the capability of creating such destruction, but our force is ultimately controlled by someone and our behavior is more or less completely predictable.
And on the other hand, we have Mother Nature creating animals such as the raccoons; one of their brethren running under and almost getting run over by my car a few days ago. Such is the varied behavior of this force.
I got a taste of all this within 10 days. My days in California seem to be becoming interesting!!
Florida got five hurricanes this past year. In the middle of the June Gloom in California, we had a week of three earthquakes and one tsunami warning. Talk about activity! The earthquakes were not major; the destruction was very minimal. Just a few evacuations here and there. But still, the threat exists. A major earthquake hits California and voila, this part of the world has another island. This thought makes me realise how small and insignificant our race is in the bigger picture!
The human race has been around for just about hundred thousand years now and we go about our daily stuff thinking we are the ultimate power on this planet and we can do as we please. Such a false pretense on our part! We constantly forget the ultimate force in this universe, that can do as it pleases without being answerable to anyone - Nature. Theologists/religious scholars call this force the Work of God and scientists break this force down to electrons, neutrons and beyond. Do as you may please, you just cannot ignore the force of nature.
There is no way we can predict, let alone prevent such catastrophes. Mother Nature does as she pleases and there is no one who can stop her from doing so!
Humans do possess the capability of creating such destruction, but our force is ultimately controlled by someone and our behavior is more or less completely predictable.
And on the other hand, we have Mother Nature creating animals such as the raccoons; one of their brethren running under and almost getting run over by my car a few days ago. Such is the varied behavior of this force.
I got a taste of all this within 10 days. My days in California seem to be becoming interesting!!
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