Disasters and the Curse
There is no doubt that recent times have seen a number of disasters. Just over a week ago, the world witnessed a semi-rare three hurricanes simultaneously in the Atlantic basin . Houston has experienced three “500 year flood events” in the past few years. Having dropped about 52 inches of rain locally and nine trillion tons of water , Harvey is considered a “1000 year or more” event . Irma is still deluging the States after devastating entire islands . While Americans were thus occupied, monsoon-related flooding in Asia exceeded the deaths, damaged, and displaced of the States . Water wasn’t the only carnaging culprit. Wildfires in Washington, Oregon, California , Montana , Idaho, California, and Utah brought unexpected havoc to the west . We could go on about wars, rumors of wars, and other mayhem. Your co-worker philosopher is right: things are happening. But the question is, what? Many have postulated....