You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe that Mother Nature just might be very, very angry.

Record hurricanes in the Caribbean, Florida and Texas, massive wildfires in the West, record typhoons in China and Japan, earthquakes in Mexico — the list of mind-boggling natural disasters just goes on and on.

It’s hard to imagine how we recover from such destruction, but I certainly believe it makes more sense to spend at least twice as much time facilitating the rebuilding as we spend on planning mass destruction from military attacks.

That said, I’ve been thinking there just might be a huge role for the U.S. military when it comes to rebuilding the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. These are U.S. territories. Their residents are U.S. citizens. Clearly, the damage there goes beyond a response by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Suppose we establish the disaster relief as a humanitarian mission. Send in a team of Army engineers with an initial mission to erect cell towers and restore communication while another team locates and repairs a couple of strategic runways. Then we call for power company volunteers from the mainland U.S., load the trucks and building materials onto a couple of C-5s and fly them in to rebuild the power grid.

Put out the word that there will be significant tax breaks for any U.S. company that invests in rebuilding tourist hotels, homes and businesses in the Caribbean — all to hurricane building codes similar to those in Florida. There will still be a “next time,” but maybe we could avoid a total wipeout.

Mobilize AmeriCorps and recruit more volunteers. Offer deeply indebted college graduates a percentage of student loan forgiveness for every month they spend volunteering to help with the cleanup and rebuilding effort in the Caribbean, Florida, Texas and the Western states facing devastating loss to fire.

It seems like this is a good time to show the world that Americans know the meaning of pulling together and that government knows how to help.

It makes sense to deploy the military to do much of the initial infrastructure rebuilding in the Caribbean. They have people trained in doing that kind of work given their vast experience at cleaning up the aftermath of war, and we are already paying them. It would be a great use of an existing resource.

Power companies have already shown a willingness to get the job done, and the islands are much smaller in size than Florida or Texas where teams have already shown how rapidly they can restore power.

We could well be looking at some student loan forgiveness program in the near future anyway, if for no better reason than freeing up thousands of young Americans to contribute more to economic activity and growth in the U.S.

So, Congress, President Trump and FEMA: Why not? Let’s go for it.