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For more than 150 years New Zealand's Mount Taranaki has been sleeping quietly,
eye wide open. In the meantime, humans dealt with the unpredictable wildness of the
volcano by cinching it with a belt of heavily forested parkland. The paler green fields
beyond are dairy farms that previous eruptions helped create, by spewing mud, ash
and volcanic material every which way—a great basis for rich soil. From orbit, the
fussy handiwork of humans—the symmetry of that circle!—looks surreal. But the pur-
pose was sober: to maximize the chances of survival. Scientists think Taranaki is
overdue for an eruption.
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