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The Earth Moves in BritainLONDON – Volcanoes have consequences – and I’m not just thinking about the chaos caused to air travel by Iceland’s unpronounceable last eruption (known to the Pentagon as E-15).
Since the eruption of the European crisis in 2009, the EU and the eurozone have experienced massive, unprecedented changes.
The Greek state became insolvent a year or so after the eruption of the 2008 global financial crisis.
If Trump were to force the issue, perhaps firing both Rosenstein and Mueller, the ensuing political eruption would make the outcry at Comey’s firing seem like a small squeak by comparison.
Six years after the eruption of the financial crisis, the recovery remains weak and uneven.
That risk would be exacerbated by the eruption of a major default-related crisis within the eurozone, which might not be contained and, through a Lehman-like domino sequence, could jeopardize the entire edifice.
But why has it also become politically explosive, as the eruption of massive protests in Ecuador and Chile suggests?
If conflict-related deaths continue to rise – owing to the eruption of new armed conflicts or the escalation of existing ones – and countries’ homicide rates start to regress toward those of the worst-performing states in their respective regions, over a million people will be dying violently each year by 2030.
Such an outcome, many worried, could trigger an eruption of violence, and at first it seemed like that would be the case.
But the latest eruption is different from its predecessors.
Other crises are manifest, but there is no single point of eruption.
If and when the eruption comes – as it surely must without a change of policy – the consequences will include fresh waves of extremism and migration, affecting Europe and spreading further afield to America and Arabia.
So, why did this latest political eruption happen, and why so quickly?
From this moment the earth continued to tremble, the shocks succeeded one another, subterranean downfalls, the rumbling of a volcano in eruption.
This torrent of flame carried away the captain and three workers, ascended the pit, and leapt up to the daylight in an eruption which split the rocks and the ruins around.
I wanted to offer you the unusual sight of an underwater eruption."
Suddenly there was an eruption.
Since historic times there has been but one eruption of this mountain, that of 1219; from that time it has quieted down more and more, and now it is no longer reckoned among active volcanoes."
He formed a small ball of the metals which I have named, and which was a very fair representation of our globe; whenever he caused a fine dew of rain to fall upon its surface, it heaved up into little monticules, it became oxydized and formed miniature mountains; a crater broke open at one of its summits; the eruption took place, and communicated to the whole of the ball such a heat that it could not be held in the hand."
Who can assure us that an eruption is not brewing at this very moment?
I have therefore examined the natives, I have studied external appearances, and I can assure you, Axel, that there will be no eruption."
This seemed to justify my fears: But I fell from the height of my new-born hopes when my uncle said:"You see all these volumes of steam, Axel; well, they demonstrate that we have nothing to fear from the fury of a volcanic eruption."
"At the approach of an eruption these jets would redouble their activity, but disappear altogether during the period of the eruption.
Therefore, if these vapours remain in their usual condition, if they display no augmentation of force, and if you add to this the observation that the wind and rain are not ceasing and being replaced by a still and heavy atmosphere, then you may affirm that no eruption is preparing."
To the eruption succeeded other volcanic phenomena.
Presently the dust storm fell upon the mountain, which quivered under the shock; the loose stones, caught with the irresistible blasts of wind, flew about in a perfect hail as in an eruption.
The lava, in the last eruption of 1229, had forced a passage through this tunnel.
Explain?""It is an eruption, Axel.""An eruption!
"Are we being taken up in an eruption?
It was very evident that we were being hurried upward upon the crest of a wave of eruption; beneath our raft were boiling waters, and under these the more sluggish lava was working its way up in a heated mass, together with shoals of fragments of rock which, when they arrived at the crater, would be dispersed in all directions high and low.
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