Wiped out:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/americas/irma-barbuda-population-trnd/index.html
The island of Barbuda was decimated by Hurricane Irma, to the extent of almost total extinction...no one person lives there now.
If you were an investor, would you invest in rebuilding, with the risk of the next hurricane?
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How vulnerable our power grids, nuclear reactors, wind turbines, satellite communication network, Internet and cellular distribution systems are, plus all the humans using them?
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/opinions/earth-dodges-a-cosmic-bullet-opinion-lincoln/index.html
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Our planet is changing, our solar system is changing, our temperature is warming, our atmosphere is transforming, our human race is adapting, our Galaxy is evolving.
We are recovering...
That last link above, and the first link too; plus all the other stuff...scientific and ecological and economic and geographic and social and diplomatic and political and cultural and psychological...all that jazz is part of our dealings with the changes of time.
Yes, we depend on electricity, on gas, on water, on cultivable lands, on food, on life, on each other, on family, on our friends and neighbors.
We depend on jobs, on paychecks, on ourselves and on our hi-fi stereo sound systems to play music. ...Be it from analog turntables, tapes, digital hi-res download audio files, Blu-rays, CDs, Tidal, Sirius, Roon, SACDs, DVDs, all that jazz.
We depends on batteries, on the hearts beating inside our bodies and on the passage of blood through the veins of our tunnel's network...biological health.