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Recent earthquakes remind us Mother Nature is still in charge

March 1, 2010

On Saturday Chile was hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Having grown up in southern California and been in multiple earthquakes, including the Northridge quake of 1993, I get chills watching the pictures. It has just been reported that this temblor was one of strongest on record - - hundreds of times more powerful than the one that struck Haiti in January.

These two recent quakes were a reminder to me that no matter what we build, no matter what we pour concrete over, Mother Nature is still in charge, and will prevail.

Working on environmental causes like I do can really get you down. Gaining an understanding of such things as how our oceans are being wiped out by acidification from global warming and overfishing, as I recently have, can really make you wonder if mankind can right all of its environmental wrongs.

In a weird way, it takes a natural disaster such as an earthquake to make one realize that, though we may believe we’re running the show, we will never quite succeed in subduing Mother Nature.

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