Mark Dolan on On the Commons

Always engaging Antonia. As a person in another ecosystem without easy access to the reading material I am a bit like the neighbors of the Dutch or Singapore :) I love the author Winchester also and have enjoyed his writing. Land recovery is an interesting issue as an aside. I did a post about the Dutch but will not link here as I consider it bad form :( I consider the flipside of the Dutch expertise and offer that Bush 42 REFUSED the assistance of the Dutch after a major hurricane to rethink how we might manage Gulf Coast storms. The Dutch built the Zuider Zee for less than the cost of one storm, hurricane Harvey that affected Houston. Singapore, a country EXISTENTIALLY threatened by sea rise has invited the Dutch as PARTNERS to collectively harden their nation against an uncertain future. My POV is the pivot to rapid sea rise is now within our lifetimes after a VERY SLOW rise the previous 60 years. Places like Cambodia and the struggling third world will weather the worst of the consequences by the mid 2030s while the rich world will be able to build its way out of it at least for perhaps 20 years.