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on my lunch break today i was reading the local community paper, and some guy had written an editorial about the tsunami and etc. He wrote that, though people are calling this the "worst natural disaster in history," in the 1970s, there were two events in Pakistan and China (a cyclone/tsunami and earthquake) that each cost 250,000 lives. That's at least 100,000 more people than this tsunami, each.
That makes me wonder how quickly we will forget about the recent devastation?
But, then he went on to talk about how Japanese forces launched balloon-bombs at the US during the World War, and one ended up in Oregon, where 6 picknickers were killed when it exploded after they found it and dragged it out of the bushes. that part sort of threw me off.
Anyway, it is humbling to think of how vulnerable humanity is. it is also irritating how we humans tend to take it for granted, as we continue to build technology with the potential to wipe ourselves out before mother nature even gets the chance, with atomic and nuclear bombs and crap. stupid people...
That makes me wonder how quickly we will forget about the recent devastation?
But, then he went on to talk about how Japanese forces launched balloon-bombs at the US during the World War, and one ended up in Oregon, where 6 picknickers were killed when it exploded after they found it and dragged it out of the bushes. that part sort of threw me off.
Anyway, it is humbling to think of how vulnerable humanity is. it is also irritating how we humans tend to take it for granted, as we continue to build technology with the potential to wipe ourselves out before mother nature even gets the chance, with atomic and nuclear bombs and crap. stupid people...