Disasters.

Last October 8, there were strong earthquake on northern part of Pakistan.
It is said that about 50,000 people are dead.

Hurricane Katrina stroke Southern part of U.S.A. on last August.
Here, about 1,200 people are dead.

So which of the two is the bigger news?
Think well...
(Terrorism in Bali is another big news, but I'll put it aside.)

You might say, "many people are died in Pakistan, since that country is overpopulated."
But the population of Islamabad is just 400,000 while the population of New Orleans is 500,000.

Many buildings are ruined? That's for both.
Crimes increased drastically? Same as well.

The scale of news isn't proportional to the scale of the disaster.
(It may be politics, but I'm not talking about it this time.)

These both incidents brought out the consequence of prioritizing the pursuit of profit.

There are people who underestimate the power of hurricane.
There are people who constructed the buildings which don't meet the required standards, to built them cheaper.
And, there are people who weren't able to escape, since they had no enough money.

Perhaps, these are the warnings from nature.

And yet, Japanese proverb says, people use to forget the news in 75 days.
Who still remember the earthquake in Sumatra? Terrorism on London? Train accident in Japan?

Okay, Terrorism or Train accident are human errors.
And you may say, natural disasters are inevitable.
But remember, human errors together could make the disaster more tragic.
Our little care could prevent so many things.

Did you know that in Chernobyl, when the alarm rang, a stuff TURNED IT OFF!?
Ridiculous, but it's true.

That's not nature? Okay.
Tokyo has one of the most developed drainage system in the world.
And yet, It flooded on last August, caused by a local downpour and such a carelessness.
Nobody expected rain of 100mm per hour, and the drainage system soon reached its maximum capacity.

In modern civilization, we, human race, thought that we conquered the nature.
NO.
Nature exists first, then us.
So we must become humble to the nature.