LOD: Con the Coast

Something that easily folds into your pocket, that’s smaller than an envelope, that’s widely available but in scarce supply, that gets your attention – that’s what overcame reams of scientific data and stopped the oceans from rising. An astonishing miracle. We witnessed it here in North Carolina, and now a little noticed blog has tracked down this secret ingredient behind stopping, or at least stalling, the seas from rising against “the brick-and-mortar investment” along our coast. It was good old cash. In the pocket. Of the bill sponsor. With lots of friends in on the game. A host of givers and takers and profit-makers. Led by irrepressible developers and their local minions, all ready with money at the right time, wrong time, any time. Except when it’s time to pay the bills for their warped vision. Then, as the blog describes, we’re left to clean up their damage.