NATURAL HAZARDS GROUP

Night is followed by day. There are 365 days and nights in a year, but this rhytm is changing due to the spinning rate of our home planet. Global change is the rule and we need to know much more about the natural variation of the high speed processes of Nature before pretending to have solutions. As all organisms we are adjusting to Nature's rhythmicity. Winter is followed by summer, a dry season by a wet. Cold or too dry or too rainy summers cause lack of harvests, often leading to hungry people, social unrest, uprising, migration, civil wars, and even wars. All this can happen in one year. Nature has daily, monthly and many other rhythms. A farmer is a slave of Nature's rhythmicity and has to work particularly hard in the warm part of the year. But farmers accumulated great knowledge about the vagaries of Nature. Urbanisation means a slavery of the clock instead of the season but in environments less and less natural... Written messages from people of past generations make up our..