Humans disregard nature at own risk
Since the formative stages of its life, this planet has been in a state of flux, of geological upheavals and chaos. There have been earthquakes, asteroid collisions, erupting volcanoes, violent storms over water and land, flooded rivers, giant mudslides, avalanches and tsunamis. Mountains were and are being raised and eroded at various speeds by human standards. These events have been going on since before the human species evolved and probably will go on after humans no longer exist.
These humans, who have the audacity to call themselves "wise," know that these events are going to happen yet continue to build their homes by the water's edge, on floodplains, on the sides of unstable hills and even in the paths of potential avalanches. They make their ant-like trails around the sides of mountains, across floodplains, build bridges across fault lines, yet when they are caught up in one of these disasters, they call upon their God to come down and save them. The question was asked of God, "What is man that thou are mindful of him?" Perhaps the answer should have been, "not much when you get in my way."
John W. Taylor
Greensboro
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