Everywhere alarming, saturated with threats, often come to us with increasingly disturbing.
Islands Samoa Tsunami, the earthquake in Sumatra, Haiti, Chile
L 'Italy is not far behind with the latest events, flood in the Veneto, storms in the South
Just to name a few that I remember at the moment in different regions of the earth, all of enormous scope, floods, landslides, landslides. Debris everywhere, dead, men women and children buried under the rubble, weeping mothers, children with dazed eyes. But
are typical phenomena of our time? Fortunately (or unfortunately) no, all types of disaster occurred in the centuries to prove that man has always been vulnerable to the events, unable to control them, easy prey to forces far superior even to those with research, science, technology has managed to build.
We could say that today there are the direct result of man-made disasters, global warming, general pollution, deforestation everywhere.
But in a distant past there were even other kind of devastation, but equally important such as plague, smallpox, cholera, before whom the man was so helpless. Not to mention the great disasters of ancient times, beginning with the great flood which is discussed in the sixth book of Genesis, the earthquake that destroyed Crete in 1650 BC and then again the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabia killing thousands of people and many many more disasters yet.
So nothing new under the sun? Maybe, but there is dismay in front of a nature that seems to want to punish the man he had abused her since the very first settlements on Earth, with a growing fury with the progress of civilization.
accidents, disasters, diseases threaten us without respite. Today more than ever. There will
the man to survive? Amber
image from the site Nasa, Goddard Photo & Video
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