07-08-2016, 06:10 AM
items like lava being the grand caveat emptor. The government needs to accomodate
There are plenty of human habitations around the world near volcanoes, in the Pacific Rim, Caribbean, and Central America for instance. Puna is not unique in this instance. The difference might be that in 3rd world counties it truly is buyer beware, but in civilized nations like Japan residents of volcanic islands are provided with generous monitoring and assistance should there be an eruption.
The US federal government also has no qualms about building under a volcano. Look at the billions they spent to construct Clark Air Force Base under Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. They had no problem billing taxpayers for base construction, maintenance, and staffing. A news story from 1991:
About 15,000 American service personnel, dependents and civilians were ordered early today to evacuate Clark Air Base, one of the largest U.S. bases overseas... Rand said the evacuation of Clark was ordered "due to a slight increase of volcanic activity" overnight.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-10/n...k-air-base
Yes, "a slight increase in volcanic activity overnight." Remember what became of that understatement? If you're a taxpayer you should, you paid for it.
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
There are plenty of human habitations around the world near volcanoes, in the Pacific Rim, Caribbean, and Central America for instance. Puna is not unique in this instance. The difference might be that in 3rd world counties it truly is buyer beware, but in civilized nations like Japan residents of volcanic islands are provided with generous monitoring and assistance should there be an eruption.
The US federal government also has no qualms about building under a volcano. Look at the billions they spent to construct Clark Air Force Base under Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. They had no problem billing taxpayers for base construction, maintenance, and staffing. A news story from 1991:
About 15,000 American service personnel, dependents and civilians were ordered early today to evacuate Clark Air Base, one of the largest U.S. bases overseas... Rand said the evacuation of Clark was ordered "due to a slight increase of volcanic activity" overnight.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-10/n...k-air-base
Yes, "a slight increase in volcanic activity overnight." Remember what became of that understatement? If you're a taxpayer you should, you paid for it.
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
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