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Re: Asian tsunami

Subject: Re: Asian tsunami
From: Adam Hollis
Date: Jan 11 2005 11:29:57
On Monday, January 10, 2005, at 09:26 PM,
uktc-request@xxxxxx.tree-care.info wrote: 


Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:49:37 EST
From: Andersonarb@xxxx.com
Subject: Re: Asian tsunami
There was speculation in some weekend newspapers that the lack of
trees led
to the wave being more devastating as the effects reached further in
land.
Perhaps intensive agriculture has scored bit of a direct hit on the
foot 
again?
A bloke at our gym is Sri Lankan and informs me that a thousand people
in the 
village where his family still live have died.

It doesn't bear thinking about.....

Bill.



Bill et al
Without going too off track here, I think we do have to "bear thinking
about" the fact that bad stuff does happen and hence the value of
human compassion.
What I do find harder to embrace, is the scurrilous rush from the media
and more misanthropic greens to apportion guilt and blame to an
essentially natural disaster - never a healthy response.
Whenever bad things happen, puritans of all colour and creed line up to
tell us it's because we've been bad.
One could equally state that if we hadn't evolved and come down from
the trees, we'd have all been safe.
Can we really expect the people of Asia and Indonesia to live like the
people of Papua New Guinea? 

Regards

Adam





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