This has been a really good year for the doom sayers. Wilma is about to come ashore after Katrina, Rita, and Stan. Those are some big acts to follow. You better have something that makes you stand out in the crowd. At the present time this is the most intense storm ever measured. That has gotten Wilma some exposure.
Not only do we have a quartet of hurricanes, let's not leave out the earthquakes, and the deadly tsunami. All of these catastrophies have taken a significant amount of human life.
It's natural to ask what has changed to cause this. The environmentalists trumpet global warming, that in the years to come it's only going to get worse unless we stop using fossil fuels. (I know I'm overstating.) At the same time the people who are waiting for the second coming of Christ say that this signals the end of the world before Jesus comes back. Both parties can point to the events and proclaim their doomsday senario.
To be honest I don't know what it is. I do know that when we see an increase we are inclined to percieve a pattern, to search for the deeper meaning, that what these all are, are the warning signs that the end is near.
Makes you wonder what these folks do on non-eventful days. It must just ruin their day when nothing happens.
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