Why do we live in a world where so many bad things happen?
That’s the sort of thing kids
ask, and for which there never seems to be
a good answer. But there is.
If bad things didn’t happen, if earthquakes
and hurricanes and tsunamis didn’t exist on this planet, neither would life. Well,
maybe some blobs in the oceans, but that’s about it.
For living things to evolve and
adapt, they need to be threatened with annihilation. Catastrophe and disaster and
extinction level events are what got us to where we are today. Allow me to explain.