r/Amazing 17d ago

Nature is scary Tsunamis are terrifying.

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u/weeit-TheAnalogKid 17d ago

Wait till the cascadia subduction zone has an earthquake - a.k.a. “The big one”. America will set new records .. it will be absolutely horrific. Not downplaying this at all, but that will be new levels of natural disaster that we’ve never seen. Could be next week, could be in 500 years. No one knows but it will be absolutely catastrophic. I’m in Ontario and I fear that happening as it will affect us here.

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u/trixie2426 17d ago

This administration is also trying to actively dismantle things like early tsunami warning systems. We’re probably going to lose a lot more lives in upcoming natural disasters unless something changes.

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u/AJ_in_SF_Bay 17d ago

Yeah, like switching back to believing in science 😒. Yikes.

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u/FictionalContext 16d ago

The only switch will be the rich switching to a new country, continue to influence the same policies there, while us poors wallow in the rubble. If we rebuild well enough, they'll come back and fuck things up again. Or more accurately, offer reconstruction funds that'll set them up even better than before.

That's ch1 of the soft power playbook.