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I’ve seen an interesting documentary recently, it’s called Earth: Biography. It’s a visually stunning tale of our planet — how it came to be, how the volcanoes operate, what are the tectonic plates, how ice affects our climate and so on. The documentary employs computer animation to visualize some of the hypotheses it presents, but the digital rendering can’t match the video sequences of erupting volcanoes or the underwater footage. Nature still beats man in that department.

I did some thinking afterwards — it’s difficult not to, because the show gives you a completely new perspective on the planet’s climate and environment — and arrived at the conclusion that we sometimes arrive at conclusions too fast. For instance, we don’t like deforestation and we fear the melting of the ice and the raising of the sea level. Yet all these catastrophes had already happened, and many times! It’s only that we, humans, were not yet present to witness them. My other thought was: maybe instead of finding ways to stop them, we should use our technology to adapt and to use them to our advantage?