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The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)__ century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us more independent from nature. At the same time, at a different level, it makes us more dependent on nature__ whims.

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland__ small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth__an bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.