I was talking to a group of frens earlier about the natural disasters that we are facing today,some of them blamed GLOBAL WARMING,some blamed the change of a new era while others said that we need them or we have to go to war. I kinda surprised when H said that we need some disasters or we need major war as he is not a war hawk and as sane as others.

His explanation is below:

Crisis when written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.Remember how Japan rebounded after the WW2,the speed of her progress was amazing. She practically beaten everyone else. Remember how USA overcame Depression with WW2, her men were out fighting but her women were hard at work building weapons,making uniforms and etc.

I (H) am not saying that natural disasters are a good thing but sumtimes we can used it for our own good. Remember that the Earth cannot provide enuff for whole humankind as resources are being used up and the population is skyrocketing at a pace that hasn't been seen. In the olden days,we have famine,plague, wars and etc to control our population boom but now,we have only commonsense.The life expectancy of humans is longer therefore we rely more on pension schemes and etc to support us in the long run,a few of us do not think for in long term,our money is spend on loans from study loan till marriage loan.

Japan would use this opportunity to kick start her economy if provided her ministers are smart enuff plus the nuclear plant was supposed to be decom 10 years ago. Bribery in play perhaps?

So I rest my case on why disasters can be a good thing.

My comments

U asshole,wait till it happens to u then u know..I'm definitely going to blog about this. Remind me to stab u and then we'll see how u turn that into a good ting.

Any economist willing to comment on this?