About 1020 the English King Canute took his throne down to the shore and commanded the tide to stop. It didn’t, of course, and the King soon had wet feet.
In a thousand years you’d think we would have learned something. Not so. Recently the North Carolina legislature passed a law that scientific evidence predicting a rise in the sea level could not be used in planning. Evidently a number of developments planned along the coast will be swamped by the rise in the sea level. By ignoring the predictions, the developments can proceed.
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