King Cnut rebukes N Carolina legislators, & Trump by extension

August 12th, 2017 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — a meditation on sea-level rise ]

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A thousand years later, the lesson King Cnut sought to teach his nobles still hasn’t altogether sunk in.

The North Carolina story is from 2012, and I haven’t been tracking to see if there have been any changes since then — but the attitude behind the gutting of the EPA under President Trump is simply “more of the same”..

Humility is the key word in the article on King Cnut.

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Sources:

  • ABC News, New Law in North Carolina Bans Latest Scientific Predictions of Sea-Level Rise

  • Wikipedia, King Canute and the waves

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