California fires ( Journal #22 )

Recently, everyone can feel the power of Santa Anna Wind. The wind makes people feel dry, hot and windless and I can’t even breathe everyday because of the dry weather. The disaster has been causing nearly 300000 people losing their home or properties. One of the reasons that make the disaster is the Santa Anna wind phenomenon but another more important reason is humans’ behavior. I always think that God grant humans numerous benefits such as, food, water, and nature but humans not only don’t value everything that they have already had but also kept destroying these things that surround us.

The event made me recalled another disaster that happened about 4 years ago, that is, SARS disease. SARS disease cause a bunch of people died. The main reason is a virus, coronavirus. Originally, the virus was not a dangerous virus and it could be easily killed by antibiotic medicines. However, because modern people abused antibiotic medicines, the coronavirus started changing itself and became another virus that contained medicines resistance ability. That is why SARS disease is so hard to control during that time.

Chinese has a idiom that is, "if the disaster is made by God, humans still have chance to survive, however, if the disaster is made by human being, humans can barely survive.” The idiom just only wants to remind us to value everything that we have had already. As to such kind of disaster, I strongly believe one principle that people don’t try to manipulate the nature. That is what I feel about the California fires.