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Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake
theshowmecanuck writes with this snippet from Canada's National Post: "Days after the remote B.C. archipelago of Haida Gwaii emerged virtually unscathed from Canada's second-strongest earthquake, locals discovered that the shifting earth had mysteriously switched off a centuries-old hot spring considered sacred by the Haida. ... A Parks Canada inspection party set out to investigate and stepped ashore to find that the island's three main hot spring pools, which once bubbled with water as warm as 77 Celsius, were bone dry. "Not even a small puddle," said Mr. Gladstone. Surrounding rocks, once warm to the touch, were cold." The earthquake measured 7.7 on the Richter scale."
We need to drill huge holes, lay the walls with concrete so the water will flow again, all in the name of preserving nature. How dare the earthquake take a historic hot springs from us, when we know better how to preserve nature and not interfere by interfering...
To hell with studies, facts and proof that earth during multiple periods of time was much hotter than it is today, we KNOW that this CHANGE of temperatures is OUR fault and that its BAD. That's why we have to allocate billions of resources to right the wrong we're doing by interfering even more.