Special report | The big and the little
Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones
But they can achieve a lot if coordinated
Canute, LEGEND has it, ordered the rising tide to turn back. The tide did not comply. Some say the king—who ruled large parts of England, Denmark and Norway in the 11th century—overestimated his power, others that he was deliberately demonstrating its limits to obsequious courtiers. Either way, all agree that the tide was not to be turned on the say-so of secular authority.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Big things and little ones”
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