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> 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 avoidin

• dragonwriter 6y 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 6y ago
  > Volcanoes are easy to avoid What about supervolcanoes? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano
• YeGoblynQueenne 6y 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 6y 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.