Since yesterday, a flight ban has been grounding most of Europe. The massive ash cloud that is currently being spewed by the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull has turned the skies into the quiet place they used to be before planes were invented while here on the ground, a tremendous brouhaha is raising.
Passengers and their relatives, airlines and businessmen, are all starting to wail and mumble that “this isn’t possible” or “I am loosing so much money”.
This situation shows how much we have become used to “commodities” such as electricity, oil, internet or planes and how easily we crumble without one of them.
And, certainly, many things could have been done: why doesn’t the majority of companies have systems for video-conferencing? Why hasn’t the European Union agreed on a common railway system?
Of course, a volcano eruption seems a fairly unexpected event but it does show that we have very few back-up plans, and as a “union” the EU should be investing on a better transport system.
Let’s just hope the eruption stops quickly because I ordered some great DVD’s form the US.
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