It is eminently believable that the Netherlands will sink because the Mayan Calendar comes to an end. What else would you expect?
The person I'm concerned about is the little boy with his finger in the dyke. What will he do?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
