Very few seem to get the fundamental lesson of Hurricane Sandy, or other natural "disasters'. We human beings are really insignificant. We may be able to manage aspect of our environment but, in the end, nature will always win. Will always bend us to our knees.
Even when discussions turn to global warming and climate change--pressing wicked problems, yes!--, few conversant get the basic point that the Earth will survive global warming and climate change, and that it is the cancer called man [and woman] that will not survive. So, we complain about the loss of electricity, telephone, cellphone, cable services, etc., the long line for gas, no money in the ATM machine, bare store shelves, flooded basements, the trees that fell, canceled events, the havoc done to our time schedules and plans, and on and on. Yet, not realizing, not appreciating, not comprehending that climate change and global warming are killing us; and, since we are the cause of climate change and global warming, we are killing ourselves. Though, perhaps, a small part of the specie will evolve in ways suitable for survival, evolution takes a very, very, very long time.
