The news out of Japan is very depressing to me on an emotional level. With our involvement with the Haitian based organization, Mercy & Sharing, we have first hand appreciation of how devastating a natural disaster of this magnitude can be. The earthquake in Haiti devastated a third-world city of limited means. Poverty was the killer, yet the casualties and devastation could be measured to some degree. What we are looking at in Japan is a first-world country with enormous economic means that is in the process of being devastated due to their advanced technology that seems to have failed them. If those reactors have a full meltdown, the effects will probably never be fully measured.
On both fronts, I feel for these people. They didn’t ask for this. They didn’t start a war. They trusted and thought they were safe.
The thought that occurs to me is that the Earth is a very alive and very organic place on which we live. It is not a stagnant pile of dirt, water and air. The history of the Earth is measured in millions or billions of years yet look what has happened in just the last few. Major earthquakes, tsunami’s, hurricanes, etc., that have killed tens if not hundreds of thousands. We all are at the mercy of a planet that is very much alive.
We all need to think about what we are doing. We don’t own this planet, It owns us and can do whatever it wants.