A hundred and ten years after the fact, it's clear that all industry of Mankind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries had been mobilized as a kind of revenge against the iceberg that sank the Titanic. The sinking was Nature's violation against Man's ambition (at best; hubris at worst)--the unsinkable vessel proved sinkable enough, as ice ripped open the steel hull, like Jack the Ripper's blade against a whore's throat, and loosed gallons of the North Atlantic into its bowels. This transgression required avenging, and what better vengeance could there be than the industrialized calamity known as climate change. Jakobshavn Glacier, which wrought the Titanic-killing iceberg, was once the fastest-thinning glacier for two decades. More recent reports, however, have indicated that the melting of Jakobshavn Glacier has halted and even reversed over the past three years. To borrow from the title of a novel that's said to have predicted the Titanic sinking: Mankind's wrath against Nature is nothing if not futility.
