9/11
Asia tsunami
Libya
Iraq
Japan Tsunami
Bushfires
Landslides
Floods
Earhquakes
It just feels like its getting worse and worse.
No it's just the saturation of media coverage that gives this impression. If you watch natural history docos you will see that natural distars are common, and that weather related ones in particular go in cycles. '74 was the last bad la nina pattern that bought much flooding to eastern Australia for example ( which are related to cyclones getting drawn south).
There is evidence that the earth has been through some 'natural distasters' of a scale that is simply frightening, at various stages of its history. Humans' time on this planet is a mere blip in time,( yet we have done so much damage to it in this time) so even what we have seen since records were kept is not the bigger picture, let alone what we have seen in our individual lives.
Sometimes i wonder though, if the earth is trying to rid itself of the scourge called humans in the same way we try to rid ourselves of parasites that do us harm.
