Environmental Extremism - Odd call

Back on October 25, I wrote a piece called "Humor: What, me worry?" It was pretty much dark humor... how we ignore the big dangers of our existence.

Rogue asteroids, super volcanos, tsunamis, Iraq, Bush, Kerry.... What do these have in common?

• They cause people to worry
• They can impact our lives

I then wrote:

How is it that we can go about our everyday lives with all of these grave threats to our existence? Distance. Our minds do a risk assessment and we prioritize our concerns. So the super volcano that could wipe out much of mankind may be there in the background, but the chance of it happening in our lifetime is too distant... too remote... to cause us to give it much concern.

Well, a massive earthquake and tsunami have devestated a relatively small portion of the human population, but, by God, it is NEWS!

But human nature is such that those of us not directly impacted by this natural disaster will quickly relegate it to the background of our minds. Those who survived and lost family and homes will not forget so quickly, but eventually will get on with their lives. In fact, some of them seem to have ignored the disaster altogether... or taken advantage of it.

It's nice to know that humans are so resilient.

What nature doesn't do to us, will be done by our fellow man....