That disastrous Amundsen-Nobile-everyone else collective Arctic rescue failure was a perfect illustration of how the human urge to do something to fix a bad sit

That disastrous Amundsen-Nobile-everyone else collective Arctic rescue failure was a perfect illustration of how the human urge to do something to fix a bad situation often is worse than the seeming callousness of accepting that a bad thing had happened and we can't make it better. It happens in the Arctic, it happens in swamps, and it happens in economies.