a reply to:
fireslinger369
There are no natural disasters. Nature does not create disasters. Technically, a disaster is when a natural hazard meets a human population. And there
is nothing like 'natural extreme weather'. Weather is just weather. What it is usually called "natural disaster" is always man-made.
The problem is when there is an increase in the likelihood or intensity of weather conditions, and that increase in the likelihood and intensity of,
say, hurricanes, is just a consequence of human activity. You cannot avoid hurricanes or droughts, but you can avoid those hurricanes and droughts to
become 'a disaster'. In a normal situation, Nature has hazards, but not disasters. Certainly, a hurricane slamming into land where no one lives is not
a disaster. Hurricanes in Mars are not a disaster either, but if you happen to set up a permanent base there, it will become a disaster for you, not
for Mars. In the end, however, it is just Martian weather: you turned it into a disaster.
So yes, there are just weather, and man-made disasters. If you consider a river, a rock, the ocean, "a resource", then you should expect your
worldview to be shaped such that in the end you consider Nature as a mere resource, something you abuse, and exploit, and trade with it. When that is
the case, you should expect Nature to be your enemy. If you disrupt Nature, rest assured the end result won't be the one you expected. Terraforming,
that is, making a planet habitable for humans, necessarily requires to make it habitable for all other life forms that coexist with you and that, all
together, make of you what you are.
Geoengineering the planet for your own benefit is simply irrational; actually, doing things for one's own profit is plainly unnatural. Nature does not
like unnatural things.
To create a planet you need collisions, high temperatures, gravity, radiation, and all kind of extreme physical and chemical conditions. Then you'll
need magma. To sculp a landscape you need earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, blizzards, drought, volcanos, tsunamis. You need oceans and an atmosphere.
Then will come the forests, the valleys, the rivers, the mountains, the deserts, the jungles. And then, only then, life.
Once intelligent life emerges the first thing it must learn is this: the Universe is just a work in progress.