Wow That's A Volcano!

Just when we Earthlings thought we were pretty darned important and that we can run things our way, along comes a volcano we can't even pronounce or spell to show us how puny we are. Our whole transportation system, the means for us to be a global community, falls apart. Or at least a major portion or it does. Just a hole in the ground with smoke and liquid rock pouring out of it and half of the developed countries in the world are at a standstill. You don't suppose we over estimate our importance do you? Now, I'm not going to get into a discussion about religion. I just want to examine our custom of assuming our own importance outweighs anything thrown at us. Then along comes a simple rumbling in the ground or a semi-big storm and we're crying on everyone's shoulders. Think about it for a minute. We humans pick places to develop that are in some of the most inopportune locations. Places that are prone to flooding, storm damage, wildfires and so on and then complain to the government because it's not doing enough to help. Wouldn't it have made better sense to build away from those rivers that flood or the coast where storm surges destroy, and where all those other problems occur. After all, when we were children, we learned not to put our hand on the hot stove or our tongue on the frosty pipe didn't we? So what's wrong with using those same principles in the rest of our lives? Oh yeah. I forgot. We're still in complete control of our lives and we sure don't want any big brother telling us what to do. So there.