Fire and Ice

Yesterday the history channel did a marathon showing of "How the Earth was made". Today there is a volcano erupting in Iceland. The volcano is spewing lava that threatens to melt a nearby glacier. The whole area is white with ice and snow except the crack in the ground glowing bright red and spitting hell. Video is terrific. Fire and Ice, and the natural awe of humbling oneself to the evolution of the world. (That thought could extend to include the Galaxy , but beyond this surface layer of land floating on fireball Earth, I don't think there's much out in space that cares.)
My point isn't we're alone, or that this is the only inhabitable piece of hardened rock in space, though it is somewhat related. My thought is humbling oneself to the evolution of the Earth.
Studying the geological history and formation of the Earth, it's evident cataclysmic change could come in an instant, in many forms, and has previously. Long term change is inevitable, is no less dangerous in it's moments, and creates catastrophe like no other force we know. That volcano in Iceland is bothering me.
According to the show, the world came out of the last Ice Age about 13,000 years ago. Astrologically speaking, about half way around the procession of the zodiac. Opposite of where we will be 122112. It was the last Ice age, too. The world has been slipping in and out of Ice ages for the last million years. That means "global warming" has also been occuring off and on for a million years. Which of course leads me to speculate if Ice ages occur and melt on 26,000 year cycles. I don't worry about another Ice age. 26,000 year cycles are a long time in human terms. The volcano in Iceland bothers me.
Volcanoes are a reminder that Life is an anomaly. An aside. A fragile miracle of circumstance at the mercy of elements it doesn't control. Perhaps the center of the Universe in consciousness, but in terms of the big picture, life is simply algae on the surface . The rest of the Universe has no conscious, or life for that matter. One stray, conscious-less rock could hit the place and put conscious to rest forever. One conscious-less meteorite returning the Universe to the norm.
Volcanoes are the norm. Volcanoes are reality. They are prevalent throughout earth and space. Show me a burning ball of rock where the surface has cooled, I'll show you volcanoes. We are as helpless to their power, as we are to that of the Universe, as the dinosaurs were when the last rock changed the face of "consciousness". Volcanoes are a reminder that the earth is no more inhabitable than any other burning ball of rock in the universe, spitting fire and poisonous gasses, except for atop it's thin hardened layer of mantle, and only if it doesn't spit too much.
Let's hope that more volcanoes don't come to life in the near future. That could indicate the world needs to burp on a large scale and that could not be good for mankind.