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Originally Posted by Combwork
Incidentally. In the time of King Canute, kings were thought of as almost divine, all powerful. I've read that what he was doing was not to try to stop the tide coming in, but to show his Court that King or no King he could not prevent the tide coming in and implicitly that no one could. When it came in, instead of trying to prevent it, people had to figure out the best way to deal with the consequences.
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But... but... but that would leave us no time to jump up and down, scream and holler, gnash our teeth, and point fingers! What fun would that be, and what are we to do with all the carbon credits?