25 January 2007

Mother Nature fights back

Imagine you are Mother Earth. There are these annoying beings that have been living on your skin for millions of years - sort of like lice. For the last couple of hundred years they have been digging in well under you epidermis and carting away bits of your insides. You may have the patience of a saint but centuries of this treatment, coupled with drilling and blasting, you will probably reach the limits of your tolerance and eventually decide to fight back.

That is what appears to have happened recently in Indonesia where drilling for natural gas is now deemed to be the cause of a disastrous mud volcano on the island of Java that has been erupting since last year.

Well done madam. I emphasise with your plight.

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