“God Made The World…

… But the Dutch made The Netherlands". So runs a saying here in The Netherlands. For 500 years the Dutch have been engaged in reclaiming land from the sea. But now there is a sea-change, as it were. In the light of global warming and rising sea levels, the Dutch water engineers are preparing to give back land to the sea.

 

There’s an article by Elizabeth Kolbert in today’s Observer that gives the background. Well worth reading.