Crushing perspective

In discussing the devastating earthquake in Kashmir, privatisation Minister Altaf Saleem has stated the following:
There is a unique opportunity to rebuild a region and improve standards of living within the area. Six thousand schools need to be rebuilt. Eight hundred medical facilities, including basic health units, bigger hospitals and there are two universities that need rebuilding. A lot of money will also go to the transportation sector. We have to rebuild some bridges, some roads and some water works. In all of this, you have to realize that this infrastructure was built in some 58 year time frame and collapsed in something like 58 seconds and people expect that it would all be rebuilt in 58 days! It has to take longer.
This statement smacks so harshly of sobering perspective that suddenly, any problem that I thought was insurmountable, well, you know...