Much as the GOP Caucus and other climate-change deniers, Roman officials in Pompeii and Herculaneum refused to be alarmed at the ground shaking, and obvious eruptions from Mount Vesuvius, on August 24, 79 C.E.
In the past week we have earthquakes in California, Nepal, British Columbia, and other places. The old Earth keeps rumbling.
Oddly, we now pay more attention to earthquakes than to other things that can cause greater, rolling disasters.
Santayana’s Ghost wonders if we ever learn from history.
Vesuvius, asleep for now (2013). National Geographic photo by Robert Clark
More:
- From New Historian, an account of the destruction in brief
- Will Vesuvius kill another city? Wired wonders
Yes, this is mostly an encore post. Fighting ignorance requires patience.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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