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What will historians make of Seattle 500 years from now?
The Emerald City will be Atlantis 2.0, brought down by climate change and a plague of disasters.
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
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