Posted on 04/05/2019 9:02:19 AM PDT by PROCON
A company called Oceanix is building a prototype floating island as an experimental solution for crowded coastal cities threatened by climate change, the company told the United Nations habitat program Wednesday.
Such buoyant islands would be linked together into floating, self-sustaining cities that rise with sea levels and are built to withstand hurricanes, according to a group of architects, engineers and developers who met at the U.N. headquarters. The prototype will be a small-scale version that could be ready within months, said Marc Collins Chen, an entrepreneur and former French Polynesian politician who founded Oceanix.
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Good use of plastic. Next time some eco nazi talks about plastic in the ocean just say it’s a floating city.
The concept is centuries old. It used to be called Cloud Cuckoo Land.
“self-sustaining”?
including millions of “floating” acres of farm land? you know, for “self-sustainment”
hey, i’m still waiting on flying cars ...
So will the Deep State Elite allow them off Martha’s vineyard?
Doesn’t Guam already float?
> As everyone knows the value of coastal real estate has plummeted around the world due to climate change-—right?
Bingo. This is a good point to make when debating the issue with AGW moonbats. Sell me your low-lying land along rivers and flood planes and coastlines. Sell it at a loss of course, since it will soon be flooded.
This cuts throught the bulls**t real fast.
Why not go full Jetson?
I just looked at a random listing on Zillow on the water at Miami Beach, and I don’t think you can get much closer to sea level in the US than Miami Beach.
Dec 2010: $800,000
Today: $2,800,000
I guess the owners didn’t get the memo. I guess Zillow isn’t factoring in sea level rise.
Oh what a waste of time and money.
This NO SEA RISE. Have a look at an article posted here yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3739496/posts
“Floating Cities”In the past those were known as ships.Take a look at some of these cruise liners and they look like floating cities.That is until they get caught in a severe storm then the occupants are hoping they don’t go down with those ships.
The UN is way out of it’s league and mandate ,it’s like Obama grabbing more and more power
Liberals will finally be able to tax gravity!!
Think of how much money that will make!
No one will have to work! I mean like,
Ya know , forever!!
The best ideas always come out of the United Nations.
[2 cm]
OH NO!! NOT 2 cm!!
Time for inflatable vests!
And they could be off 3cm?
LOL
Reminds me of a local weather newscast many years ago - an area that had once flooded - the water had not risen to the top of the street curb - but they were calling it alarming.
LOL
The UN is wanting to do this to set up humans in floating feed pods for their amphibious Lizardman Overlords.
See? Now there’s a great plan.
Well, except for high winds, earthquakes, ....
Still, I like the Jetsons better than Waterworld.
Why not put U.N. headquarters on a float and send them to sea?
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