The geographer Chang Shih-chiao laments the wanton disregard of the Taiwanese people for the environment, and feels that we have exacerbated the damage of the recent earthquake through our own recklessness.
地震後，水土流失、山丘白頭，在地理學者看來，台灣人粗魯的對待台灣土地，加深了地震對大地的傷害，回過頭來受傷最深的仍是人類自己。