Andy Keeler the University of North Carolina CSI [clueless PC?] economist: “What happened in South Africa, with apartheid ending, gives me hope in humanity.” Which part--the endless mass butchery of White farmers, countless suburban home-invasion White murders or just White South Africans being tricked into voting for the mythical 'Rainbow Nation'? --tma (well written and photographed article however)

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When a family from the Midwest looked up satellite images of the house at 23267 Midgetts Mobile Court in Rodanthe, North Carolina, they saw that it was separated from the Atlantic Ocean—sparkling, even in the photograph—by another mansion. But when they arrived there this past July, they were mystified, if not at all disappointed. The six-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot vacation rental, for which they were shelling out $8,000 a week, was now oceanfront property.

“I swear on the map there was another house here,” the father puzzled.

There was. There still is, on Google Maps, a sprawling structure enchantingly but, as it turned out, recklessly, ill-fatedly close to the waves lapping the beach. The family didn’t know if it had been moved, its owners paying to lift the McMansion whole and transport it to another plot farther inland. Or maybe, like dozens of houses before it, it was simply sucked into the sea.

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Keeler, the economist, has not totally given up on this latter possibility. “What happened in South Africa, with apartheid ending, gives me hope in humanity,” he says. 

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https://www.audubon.org/magazine/march-april-2015/slip-sliding-away