Think, people. Think.

If one year we have zero tornadoes and the next year we have ten, there’s no trend there. There’s an anomaly. Next year we will most likely go back to having very few, if not none at all. You don’t get to make long-term predictions with a couple years of data.

Maybe natural disasters have been increasing in frequency and devastation. But let me advance another theory instead: natural disasters appear to be more frequent simply because of a massive, connected population. Any disaster is going to affect more people than any other time in history, but will also be instantaneously transmitted to the furthest reaches of the globe.

Sure, it looks like earth is becoming more violent; I don’t know if it is or not. I haven’t seen hard data, or any other type of data for that matter. But you know how it is: perception is more powerful that information anyways.