Comment Re:Incorrect (Score 1) 186
We aren't talking about millions of years timescale here. According to TFA, the last eruption was 33 years ago. This would make eruptions as much a part of the natural ebb and flow there as wildfires are in some areas.
No, this isn't a very "consoling fact", but it seems very anthropocentric to assume that nature is here to console you or any other human....