Sam Kinison had this bit about world hunger being a problem because aid agencies kept bringing assistance to people that live in a desert. It’s, of course an oversimplification and quite frankly inaccurate, but he was a comedian of his time and all of that.
The point in mentioning it is that I feel the same way about people that lose their homes to floods in a flood plain, or to fire in a forest.
"Oh. You want another house? In the same place? The place that has burned every ten years for the last TEN MILLENNIA!? Oh, and you want to build it out of matchstick wood AND PLASTIC! You see this? You see this here? It’s stone! And this? Concrete! Yeah! A common building material THAT DOESN’T BURN!!! "
Sam Kinison had this bit about world hunger being a problem because aid agencies kept bringing assistance to people that live in a desert. It’s, of course an oversimplification and quite frankly inaccurate, but he was a comedian of his time and all of that.
The point in mentioning it is that I feel the same way about people that lose their homes to floods in a flood plain, or to fire in a forest.
"Oh. You want another house? In the same place? The place that has burned every ten years for the last TEN MILLENNIA!? Oh, and you want to build it out of matchstick wood AND PLASTIC! You see this? You see this here? It’s stone! And this? Concrete! Yeah! A common building material THAT DOESN’T BURN!!! "
Humanity is doomed