Originally Posted by Janszoon

It seems like most ancient civilizations formed next to bodies of water so it might just be that they were the natural disaster that people were most likely to experience. Plus, the whole life giver turns deadly thing works well thematically in a story.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.