Thursday 15 April 2010

Glad I'm Not Flying Today, Or Gaia Strikes Back

There are times when it seems that the earth has had enough of us. First the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Baja California and China.

Now it's the turn of the volcanos: there has been seismic activity in Iceland for some weeks, but now it's really serious, it seems. None of these events is unheard of, and everyone knows that the forces inside the earth are impersonal and eternal. Yet, it's tempting to anthropomorphize, and suggest that maybe our faults are being criticized...

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