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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49243)	10/11/2005 8:12:27 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

The wrath of Gods! Why do we embellish annihilation! iranian.ws The earth's surface is broken into seven large and many small moving plates. These plates, each about 50 miles thick, move relative to one another an average of a few inches a year. At transform-fault boundaries, plates move horizontally past each other. The San Andreas Fault zone is an example of this type of boundary where the Pacific Plate on which Los Angeles sits is moving slowly northwestward relative to the North American Plate on which San Francisco sits. Millions of years ago the Eurasian plate movements caused Himalayas to rise. Imagine a self conscious being witnessing Himalayas rising and reporting the associated earth quakes and destruction? Would he consider that to be fault of green emissions? Like many blamed the recent Tsunami to obscure nuclear test explosions in the Pacific's. One Karakatoa eruption releases far more obnoxious gases and so does these underground Tsunamis that alters the balance of Ozone layers far more adversely than our little gizmos and gimmicks that we blame all our ills on. Nature has its own cure and journey of billions of years would not end by one century of "abuse!" If even we agree to call it so. Lets think for moment and stop self flagellation, we are not responsible for movements of these plates over hot molten lavas, and this is the nature of the beast we live with. Our limitations are immense and we need to know and prepare the best we can. We don't have all the answers and we shall have not all the answers. We like to confront nature, we like to live in cities which sit on faults, and we like to live in cities that are below the sea level that is how we have progressed, by taxing nature, sometime punished for going against the natural law. We need to train our minds to live with the tragedies and catastrophes which is part of our natural rearing, however this should not detract us from preparing for the transformation that can bring challenging times on us. Good times and bad times are part and parcel of life, lets not get inundated with good times only sometime nature brings on us some tribulations and tests, we need to come out of those collectively mature and without huge overstatements and overkill. Instant solutions in a universe that has taken 16 billon years to reach at this point are self-defeating. Risk reward in any response needs to be the basis of our response. Threat levels have multiplied inside our heads and lead to comparisons of oranges with apples that only serve to worsen the situation. Politicisation of failures and the ability of the media to generate sensationalism is another key constituent that helps belligerency and cynicism of media to grow. Human concerns are of little importance as far as political points can be scored. The division of various stratums of society as a result of the global war on terror has also resulted in a new kind of polarization whereby human disasters are victim of politics. Some political points were scored when Katrina failures were nailed on Bush but no one evaluated that natural disasters have their own destructive dynamics. Once the civilian infrastructure was swept away, very little could have been done on local level until the Feds got involved. It was not an event as huge as Tsunami, this time inundated a whole city instead of a region, and hence the repercussions were severe. I did not see from Katrina that US is particularly poor or could not manage disaster, rather for what it was Katrina deaths were quite low in comparison to the intensity of the storm. Hurricanes are part of life in Keys and Gulf, and it was expected that hurricane flying over New Orleans may compromise the levees, this one was right over on the East and had it been little more west the problems would have multiplied. The rains of Bombay in July were another example of vagaries of nature, one side of the city was deluged with meters of rains in less than 36 hours, and how one could prepare for such extremes. Our over confidence and our lack of humility in face of "Mother Nature trials" instils in us demand for answers for everything, something's we may not have any answers! iranian.ws