The Arabs tried is by pumping sand to form new islands ... which are now sinking back into the sea. Fortunately, there are no hurricanes in that region... just the occacional wars of conquest...
ala the novel Snow Crash.
Figure out how to convert all this free trash:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
into energy/products and maybe you could sustain a society for a while.
Sounds like a good time to make a pycrete super ship that stays near colder waters, a massive frozen wood chip hull that will not melt as it would have chilling tubes near the out surface.
“That’s why we work to enable seasteading communities — floating cities”
This was an idea I floated here on FR a few years back. Greens were moaning about the vast amount of plastic waste bobbing in the pacific. I proposed a floating city made of modular floats, rafts, boats and the like to harvest this petroleum-based resource, clean the ocean, and turn a profit.
A new or different society would organically rise from such a thing.
And with all the greenies on the floating city, we could go back to the USA being a producer again.
Gee, it would be easier to live in Antarctica. I don’t think we’ve come up with sufficient technology to deal with rogue waves, just for starters. I’ll put this in the same category as flying cars - yeah, sure, we could do it... but why?
bflr