Nature and its Cycles

When we think about all the people in this world who are affected by earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, other natural tragedies, we can’t help think about the destruction, and the injured and dead. The question always comes to our minds, why? Why did this have to happen? Why did so much destruction and so many people have to be hurt or perish? Is there a rhyme or reason for it all?

The answer is not why so many people are effected, but why is nature doing what it does? The answer is in the earth itself. Everything on this earth is involved in a cyclic/periodic happening that man has little or no control over. Nature has all the control and yet it has none.

When scientists study nature, through observation, experiment or through the data from earth’s surface and/or glacial core samples cycles show up as bands that represent the years in which something took place is seen. As man studies the core sample data, they are able to extract data of the type of happening that took place, its intensity and duration. An example of a cyclic event in nature may be pollution, droughts, excessive rain, extreme cold, warming of the earth in general, and much, much more.

We today believe that nature is under our control and that the earth has no right to move on its own, and to open up and spill its innards upon us, or even change its climate to suit itself. How dare it…

We must remember that there are more than 6 billion people living on this earth and that the population density is located in areas where there is a high concentration and provability of earthquakes, volcanoes and storms that can and do destroy us and our many creations. Nature can destroy our buildings, our homes, and businesses, parks and other of our beautiful creations.

Man, it seems, has not learned that he is at the mercy of nature and that he has little or no control over what nature does. Man has tried to build in such a way as to prevent earthquakes and storms from destroying his creations, but it seems that all the work and research that is put into his efforts, is just never enough. From each tragedy, we learn more and strive to put our new advanced knowledge into our designs. We always hope we have done the right thing this time, even though it may take years for us to learn the truth of our actions.

It is not your fault or mine that people are involved in “natural disasters.” We may even be involved in one ourself. Will we know what to do and be able to deal with the pain of destruction? Will we be able to help the injured and dying? Will we have the knowledge we need to avoid the areas of the world that nature affects the most or will we just be survivors?

The only thing that we can do is to be aware of the cycles of nature and where it is that nature will wreak its havoc, and to avoid those areas on the earth. Maybe, we will be one of the lucky ones and avoid nature’s destructive cycles.