Arctic Horse That's Long Left the Barn
Today's lead Washington Post editorial, Arctic Thaw, reaffirms a point of view that has been meaningless for three decades, that moves must be made by the industrial world to slow, prevent and reverse global warming.
Sorry, globe, but that horse left the barn a way long time ago and what was once opportunity galloped away in hot pursuit.
Even the strictest enforcement of the Kyoto Protocols, which we as Americans don't belong to anyway, would merely hope to freeze greenhouse gas production at turn-of-the-century levels and those levels are already melting the planet's ice. So, we are left with the world as it is instead of the world as we would have it. No blame here, no shaking of fists, no screaming across police barriers, just a realization.
Those realizations are going to have a profound affect on nation-building and the real estate and construction industry in all its forms. A new nation will certainly have to be constructed for Holland, a.k.a. the Dutch, a.k.a. the Netherlands as t…