The Axiomatic Musings of a Teen who thinks Earth needs to take a chill pill.

Cut your populous some slack with the natural disasters please, Mama Demeter? It's not very nice :(.

I was just watching the news about the earthquake/tsunami in Japan that happened this morning and I'm just gonna share my thoughts on the matter.

• The Internet is mind-boggling. Parts of the news report featured vlogs of people during the earthquake, showing things shaking and falling while narrating, "holy @#&% what the %*@& am i supposed to do?!" And naturally within minutes, there were thousands of tweets pouring out of Japan about it. The world knew INSTANTLY. There was instantaneous media coverage, Red Cross sprang into action immediately, everything got going in the blink of an eye. Then, Hawaii and California could prepare themselves for the affects of the tsunami as well and hopefully lessen the damage. That's just amazing to me.
  There is only one single eye-witness account of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79AD, it was by Pliny the Younger, written to his friend decades after the event. After that, Pompeii lay preserved and undisturbed (save minor graverobbers) for over 1000 years until a farmer was digging and happened to find an entire city buried in ash and pumice. ONE THOUSAND YEARS before it was discovered. Today, thousands of people pressed "Enter" and we knew to go help in a SECOND. We take Facebook and Twitter for granted but like...think about how incredible that is.
• Similarly, there's none of this "I wonder what that's like..." You wanna know what it's like? Go read some tweets. You can find out exactly what it's like, from a person your age, through their eyes, exactly as it's happening. Likely with pictures to accompany. From our own safe little bedrooms in Cheshire, we can get a first-hand account of something on the other side of our planet. Unfathomable. It's a small world after all, folks. 
• But yeah seriously what the fuck is going on. Record-shattering snow storms in the US. Massive flooding in Australia and South America. Earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan. If this is 2011 I'm freaking terrified for 2012!!!! XP. 
• And as if all the horrific damage and tragic death tolls aren't enough, there's now a report on how the earthquake knocked out the cooling system for a nuclear power plant in Tokyo. A cooling system that's pretty freakin important when uranium hangs out in nuclear power reactors at like, thousands of degrees. So now they government has to not only try to save survivors and repair incredible amounts of damage, but they also now have to work on restoring the cooling system so there isn't a meltdown ON TOP OF a tsunami ON TOP OF an earthquake. And you think YOU have a lot on your plate??? 
• I sincerely hope this doesn't become another reason for prices to shoot up. When i went to Australia and grocery prices as well as just about anything else was doubled, the phrase was, "It's cuz of the floods". And i get that lots of farmland was decimated so crops were lost, supply down, demand up, simple economics. But honestly, these disasters have been happening in so many places and so many people have lost everything...people aren't going to be able to afford things that are priced twice as high "because of the ___" just because the fat entrepreneurs know they can jack up their profit. That's so wrong; this is really the point where they world has to come together and go, "Okay, so basically we're all as fucked as each other, let's just help our bros out for a while until we're all back on our feet." Like let's keep prices down in every industry so that people can sell and buy things cheaper and thus afford to not make as big a profit while other people can afford to start rebuilding their entire lives. Fair enough, methinks?
• Basically let's just keep our thoughts (and prayers, if you're into that) with these people as they try to recoup. Sitting here on my bed with my personal laptop all dry and intact, I really can't imagine that kind of destruction, but I know it would suck. So let's hope the death toll doesn't get any higher and they can recover as quickly as possible :). 

And voila, my two cents :).

[P.S. I'm gonna try posting more because a friend told me at lunch yesterday how he knows some readers that were going to start petitioning me to post again xD. It made me smile, you guys are the best <3.]

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♪: "A Wonderful Guy" from South Pacific (#personal. Can't exactly think of a song that relates to a tsunami...)