 about the massive 7.8 earthquake in Turkey and parts of Syria. The pictures are pretty devastating. Whole blocks of apartments and apartment buildings flattened really. Latest numbers, over 5,000 dead. Those numbers are probably going to keep rising. There are also probably some pretty remote places that people haven't gotten to or gotten information of. But pretty horrific. 7.8 earthquake is a significant earthquake. That is a big earthquake. It's the largest hit of that region in a long time. The earthquake was felt as far away as Israel and even, I think, Egypt. And I think more than anything, it's events like this remind us of how the extent to which nature wants to kill us, the extent to which the world is a dangerous place, the extent to which there are earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, a gazillion ways in which droughts and so on, in which nature doesn't want to kill us, but nature's actions affect human beings and affect human beings often for the worse. And the extent to which civilization protects us and the richer the country, the better protected you're going to be, the richer the country, the fewer deaths you're going to suffer because of earthquakes or weather events or anything else. The better construction material, the more solid the bit of the science about the swaying of the building, everything about this, the richer, more sophisticated, more capitalist a country is going to be, the better it's going to be able to withstand earthquakes of 7.8. I suspect that if a 7.8 hit the Bay Area, you'd have fewer casualties than in Turkey, the same with regard to Tokyo and there are many other, not many, but there are a few other regions, LA and other regions in which earthquakes are prevalent, large earthquakes are prevalent. And you can basically, with the same level of clustering of people, the richer, more advanced are going to survive this and going to suffer less. So yes, truly horrific to live through something like that. And it's sad to see so many deaths. It is a reminder that the world is not a particularly friendly place for human beings and that it takes our minds, it takes our technology, it takes our science, it takes our ability to actually protect ourselves from all the things that nature throws at us in its attempt to kill us. So yeah, be happy that you live in a relatively rich place, relatively wealthy place. And this goes, of course, to all the weather events that people panic over with regard to climate change. There's a reason why climate deaths have declined, even if you can make the case that hurricanes or whatever are increasing. The number of people actually who are killed and injured by these events declines because of our wealth, because of our technology, because we can build shelters to protect us from it. All right. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals, and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see The Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and, of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.