Earth--Is there anything we can do?

Yes we can do only one things for the earth. May be we can't stop the disasters but we should take step how we we can reduce the disaster. We should plane tree then they will produce oxygen which is necessity for our health and reduce the chance of floods. So we should do tree plantation. Have a good time!

I don't think what we are doing to preserve earth has anything to do with earthquakes and tsunamis.Earthquakes are very common in places like Japan.That is because of volcanic activity or other suck causes that humans have nothing to do with.Tsunamis are occurring as a consequence of earth quakes. Actually earth CAN handle these disasters but it is us living beings that can't handle them. What really happens in the universe is destruction and recreation.Life may come and go.

I believe as humans it is our duty and responsibility to maintain and keep our earth as clean as possible as we can. For many reasons but the utmost is for the reasons that life continues and unless we do so it would not be pleasant and or exist for future generations. As for the Tsunami situations I do not think we personally can prevent them outside of maintaining the earth.

At my own personal level, I too try to recycle and reuse as much as I can and try to plant trees wherever and whenever possible. But these things are reallt very insignificant and negligible compared to the magnitude of the disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the tsunami that hit Asia a few years back. What can be done to prevent such incidents is for the countries to get together and start planting forests on a really HUGE scale to cover up for the losses of millions of trees to make space for humans and industries. In Pune, the city in India where I stay, the rivers that used to be really clean and nice are now virtually turned into gutters where even animals don't go. There are so many industries that simply pour their affluents into the rivers without treating them, even local authorities do not find it necessary to treat sewage in many places before letting them flow into rivers. Same scenario is repeated in other major cities across the world. If thsi can be changed in a major way,. then teh climatic conditions can be somehow influenced for better. At least this is what I feel!

I doubt that we can have any impact on natural disasters such as earthquakes and the oceanic effects that follow them, nor on the droughts and floods that occur in so many parts of the world. What we can and won't do is minimize. People congregate in cities, miles and tons of concrete and steel, they claim and purchase land in areas that might be best left to nature, in California houses slide down hills when the rains turn the ground to mud, roads are buried under dirt and rock, this happens all over the world, houses built on flood plains and people wonder why when the floods do finally come... The Earth can handle whatever nature choose to throw at it, it's us that's the problem, it's us who has the problem. What we can do is pretty much what we've always done, suffer the worst and clean up after it's over. Those who can relocate to safer areas, those who can't go about their business and wait for the next one to hit. We are a stubborn and at times foolish species. Insisting on what we want rather than what we should have...