…one can still respond with compassion when acts of nature destroy their homes.
One can. Since there doesn’t appear to be anyone on this forum who’s lost a house to a volcano, though, there’s really no need to express it.
acts of nature
Eh, nature doesn’t act. It is. We evolved from it, we are it. When humans try to go against its flow, bad things tend to happen. In the age of science and information technology people really should know better.
