06-03-2022, 02:38 AM
Greta Thunberg will be along shortly to blame it on anthropogenic global warming in 3... 2... 1...
Fact is, the same thing has been going on here ever since I was a kid. Every spring, you can count on floods and land slips. In 1977, there was a flood here, and Grundy, VA got mostly washed away. the whole town. A running joke in those days in these parts was that the flood did 4 million dollars in improvements to Grundy.
In the case of Brazil, I think a lot of it dealing with the human toll is the proclivity to gather up in human ant hills, and over-develop the hillsides with too much housing in a small area. When you build too many houses, too close together, it takes up land space that would normally be occupied by plants and trees - which have roots - and sterilizes that soil area. No more roots to hold it together, along with torrential rains to lubricate the ground equals out to a lot of hillsides suddenly becoming bottom land, and taking the houses perched on them along for the ride with the dirt.
Fact is, the same thing has been going on here ever since I was a kid. Every spring, you can count on floods and land slips. In 1977, there was a flood here, and Grundy, VA got mostly washed away. the whole town. A running joke in those days in these parts was that the flood did 4 million dollars in improvements to Grundy.
In the case of Brazil, I think a lot of it dealing with the human toll is the proclivity to gather up in human ant hills, and over-develop the hillsides with too much housing in a small area. When you build too many houses, too close together, it takes up land space that would normally be occupied by plants and trees - which have roots - and sterilizes that soil area. No more roots to hold it together, along with torrential rains to lubricate the ground equals out to a lot of hillsides suddenly becoming bottom land, and taking the houses perched on them along for the ride with the dirt.
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’