For a person who has cancer, chemotherapy and radiation can be potent medicines to eradicate their disease.
If you gave those same treatments to a healthy person, it would kill them.
Painkillers can help people who are suffering from unbearable pain. But too much can cause a fatal overdose.
Rain nourishes the soil enabling flowers and plants to grow, but in excess it creates floods and can drown plants and humans.
Fire is essential for boiling water, cooking food, and keeping us warm, but when not contained it becomes destructive.
The utility of everything exists on a spectrum. At some point even the best cure tips over into a place where it’s no longer helpful and can actually be harmful.
Sometimes, as is the case with weather, we don’t have control over when a helpful resources becomes harmful. Where we do have control, our work is to catch it before it reaches the tipping point.
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