Natural disasters

The floods in Spain look to be much worse than the ones elsewhere in Europe in 2021. 135 people died in the Ahr Valley in Germany, and it's clear that the number in Spain will be in the hundreds. While this one is clearly a part of the climate catastrophe, and this will probably the case with most natural disasters in the future, there are obviously still others, like volcanic eruptions, which also happen regularly, such as recently in Iceland and in Kamchatka, not to mention undersea eruptions and earthquakes, e.g. the 2004 Indian Ocean quake that caused the devastating tsunami, the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

Events happen all the time and very few make the news. Most earthquakes don't have building-destroying or human-killing consequences, but they occur constantly—just look at this site and only consider the ones today (whenever you read this):

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-48.5166%2C-239.50195&extent=11.95335%2C-155.12695

While the geological natural disasters may be hard to predict and impossible to prevent, and have obviously accompanied humanity throughout all of its history, unless we finally take meaningful action the others (which we've failed to do for decades against the ongoing warnings by the modern Cassandras), like extreme rain, floods, fires, and powerful storms, will only become worse and the continuing combination of both kinds doesn't bear thinking about. I'm not optimistic.

what are we doing here then!.?

I think its the cars being washed away that people may associate a disaster with . Being buried alive in a basement parking lot is beyond most peoples imagination . I saw devastation in northern india on a tour . A whole town called bang just disappeared in a flood . Smashed like egg shells.
Bbc this week on weather extremes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5vdn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile