Thank you! I read a lot, and listen to “Teaching Company” lectures on my CD player in the kitchen, and then I think about it.
History is very big picture, and geology is an even bigger one, even if you’re a Creationist.
You could say, “Hurricanes in the Carolinas are worse than they ever have been!!! OMG, the Apocalypse and/or Global Warming!!!” Or, you could say, “Financial losses due to hurricanes in the Carolinas are higher than they have ever been, due to high-value real estate development in areas known for meteorologic and geologic instability.”
If people used pure reason in deciding where to settle, weather and geology would be much smaller factors. But people don’t, and haven’t historically, and we can’t reasonably expect them to start at any future time.
“Financial losses ...
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Consider the financial losses that would occur if a real major quake struck in/near the Panama Canal Zone and wrecked some of the locks. ...Shipping would revert to having to sail around the Southern tip of South America to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
I could NEVER figure this out. After all the storms, flooding and mayhem, people moved RIGHT back onto the EVER-flooding Mississippi. Why?!?! They aren't stupid.
I think that the US government finally had to step in and say: no more building on the banks of the flood zone.
?!?! Sad to see such stupidity foolishness in supposedly such an educated populace.