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By that logic, nobody should be doing any construction, anywhere. Natural disasters are a part of living on our planet. If an event is exceedingly rare, such a

By that logic, nobody should be doing any construction, anywhere. Natural disasters are a part of living on our planet. If an event is exceedingly rare, such as a volcano eruption, how much time do we need to spend worrying about it? As far as the Romans were aware at the time, Vesuvius was probably one of the only volcanic episodes that any Roman had ever dealt with, they were likely well aware that it was unlikely to happen again. Today, we're a bit better off with our hoards of knowledge and ability to observe to some higher level of accuracy, when a volcano might erupt, so it does make a lot of sense to just build whatever convenient infrastructure we need right next to a volcano

dheera 5y ago
> Natural disasters are a part of living on our planet. No, they don't have to be. It's exceedingly easy to avoid certain types of natural disasters by avoiding disaster-prone areas. Volcanoes are easy to avoid.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > No, they don't have to be. It's exceedingly easy to avoid certain types of natural disasters by avoiding disaster-prone areas. Volcanoes are easy to avoid. Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes are each fairly easy to avoid, but its harder to avoid them at the same time without giving up on things like freshwater supplies, trade by sea, prime agricultural land, etc. There are reasons people live in places that periodically see disaster.
- louthy 5y ago
  > Volcanoes are easy to avoid What about supervolcanoes? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
  >> Volcanoes are easy to avoid. If you know about them and if you haven't already established an entire society in their shadow. Otherwise you suddendly have a sizeable population that must immigrate en masse to a new area. But mass immigration is fraught with perils and resisted fiercely by the populations already established in the areas receiving the immigrants. There are major humanitarian crises unfolding right now because of this, the world over, although the disasters most people flee these days are man-made, war and environmental destruction. But the result is the same.
  - foobarian 5y ago
    And then when it doesn't erupt in the next few years you get your palace stormed by the angry mob and probably lose your head too.

dheera 5y ago

> Natural disasters are a part of living on our planet. No, they don't have to be. It's exceedingly easy to avoid certain types of natural disasters by avoiding disaster-prone areas. Volcanoes are easy to avoid.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> No, they don't have to be. It's exceedingly easy to avoid certain types of natural disasters by avoiding disaster-prone areas. Volcanoes are easy to avoid. Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes are each fairly easy to avoid, but its harder to avoid them at the same time without giving up on things like freshwater supplies, trade by sea, prime agricultural land, etc. There are reasons people live in places that periodically see disaster.
louthy 5y ago
> Volcanoes are easy to avoid What about supervolcanoes? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano
YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> Volcanoes are easy to avoid. If you know about them and if you haven't already established an entire society in their shadow. Otherwise you suddendly have a sizeable population that must immigrate en masse to a new area. But mass immigration is fraught with perils and resisted fiercely by the populations already established in the areas receiving the immigrants. There are major humanitarian crises unfolding right now because of this, the world over, although the disasters most people flee these days are man-made, war and environmental destruction. But the result is the same.
- foobarian 5y ago
  And then when it doesn't erupt in the next few years you get your palace stormed by the angry mob and probably lose your head too.