India, July 6 -- Although science has made tremendous progress and humanity has advanced from tribal societies to the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), we have never been able to conquer nature-neither in the past nor in the present. Certainly, scientific advancement has enabled us to anticipate potential dangers and make preparations in advance to reduce their risks. However, this is much like creating the causes of destruction ourselves, nurturing them knowingly or unknowingly, repeatedly inviting disaster, and then searching for ways to protect ourselves from it.

We are talking about earthquakes, a natural disaster that has recently caused devastation in Venezuela, where more than 1,500 people have reportedly lost their lives, hund...