speaking of #StoneTablets:
> .. around #Fukushima.. stone tablets had been placed along the shoreline in the Middle Ages to serve as #tsunami warnings; future generations were explicitly told ‘Do not build your homes below this point!’
The #Japanese are certainly no more inattentive to the words of their ancestors than any other people: yet not only did they build exactly where they had been warned not to, they actually situated a #NuclearPlant there.
#AmitavGhosh in The #GreatDerangement

> Europe’s rivers are turning up bleak omens — the receding waters in parts of central Europe have revealed old “hunger stones,” markers placed along riverbeds that locals centuries prior left as guides to earlier droughts. One stone that emerged out of the Elbe read: “When this goes under, life will become more colourful again.”
#StoneTablets #Drought #Rivers #Scoop