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I hate to be a doom and gloom social studies teacher

by social studies teacher

Mar 12, 2011

but is it just me? I teach social studies - the history of societies - and I've had some questions recently but the earthquake in Japan brings it to a head.

I don't get it but I'd love someone to explain it to me and I've love just as much to be wrong but... how can life be sustained in earthquake areas? How can modern life be sustained in earthquake areas is the real question? We build expensive infrastructure in earthquake areas which earthquakes and tsunamis then destroy. How can a society afford to rebuild such expensive infrastructure? Particularly when it may well be hit by another earthquake?

When we lived in huts or when people still live in huts, there is a loss of life - we hate to see that of course - but now that we live in areas where power is supplied by nuclear reactors, how do we have that kind of power and earthquakes both?

That was the first question. The second question is - does anybody else think we're getting stretched kind of thin? How ...See More

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