Here's a very interesting video about Campi Flegrei near Naples by an Italian who says almost exactly the opposite of the video I posted yesterday.
Yes, it would have been a good idea for people not to live inside a caldera in the first place but no, at this stage, we should do nothing!
Where are people supposed to go? Who will pay? What about their work and lives? And sure enough, all these questions are valid. As we have seen in Japan following the great tsunami of 2011, moving even 200,000 people at the time to temporary accommodations was in itself a tragedy for many, and 15 years later some, especially the elderly still live there. Where could they go?
So in conclusion, yes, a tragedy in Naples could happen any day, but conversely a catastrophe is not certain at this stage, and this being Italy, most people prefer to take a chance. There have been many swarm earthquakes in the past which were not followed by an eruption. Of course, as for Pompeii, once in a while this didn't work so well. Qui vivra, verra!
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