The question hence becomes is corruption a cause or consequence of incident?
“Mankind has conquered nature instead of adjusting to it.” – (Lillard) Davis (140)
But watch we authentically conquered anything? With a seismic shake or treacherous winds or hellacious fire the earth casts off our victory flags – our cities – with no rattling obvious effort.
We seem very proud of our technological efforts to lay a muzzle to the earth, but have little concrete reason to celebrate.
“First the earthquake, then the disaster.” - Davis (47)
The politics of disaster should vex us more than the shaking earth under our feet. We have yet to harness ourselves, much less our inanimate surroundings.
“We need, in a nutshell, to spend billions in mitigation in enunciate to prevent hundreds of billions in damages. But nothing is less politically realistic in the present climate, and the ostrichlike consensus is to ignore problems that are overly big to fix.
” – Davis (54)
It seems to me that there is nothing more even and inseparable than catastrophe. It is our reactions that characterize their destructive power, particularly in the case of infixed disasters. Our growing hunger and need to understand what it is, how it works, and how to control seems to be our very undoing. Because with our hunger comes ideas, and with those ideas comes the thought that we have indeed “conquered” something, when in reality the disaster has effectively conquered us. We assume that we are near from its wrath with technological advances. We assume that we have succeeded in muzzling the unknown, when unawares the disaster strikes and we witness the carnage and we hunger to know what it is,...If you emergency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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