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John Carter's avatar

"If Canada were a Chinese province, it would rank sixteenth in population...."

Wait I thought Canada was a Chinese province.

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The Aztecs' model program for managing meteorological events didn't work so great, and perhaps our leaders feel that removing the actual blood-letting aspects of it will do the magic trick.

We do fail to teach our children well. Might be time to create a comprehensive timeline of human attempts to tame the implacable forces of nature, with an analysis of how well they worked.

And my now frequently-reiterated reminder: We ain't modern. We're just now. We can't fix the biggest things no better than anyone who came before us. We can just nibble at the edges, and the edges keep shifting their boundaries.

Anyway--good piece, Chris. Always happy to see your publication credits increase.

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