Could Floating Cities Help Us Adapt to Climate Change?

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Will the smart cities of the future float ? Will it be helpful in fighting the #Climate Change ?

Beautiful article by Leon Kaye published on Triplepundit highlights  that the data is suggesting sea levels could rise by as much as six feet before the end of this century, the possibility of building floating communities has captured plenty of imaginations. One Silicon Valley startup suggested — and even patented — “self floating environments” that would create communities immune to rising seas. Several years ago, a Paris architecture firm drew up renderings for biomimicry-inspired floating cities that could house climate refugees.

Further in his article he says, French Polynesia (which includes Tahiti, its largest island) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Seasteading Institute to embark on a development called the Floating Island Project.

Upon completion, the island or islands will have their own “special governing framework” and will comprise an “innovative special economic zone.” The territory’s housing minister, Jean-Christophe Bouissou, touted the agreement as one allowing French Polynesia to “find solutions to the problems facing Island communities by building ocean platforms.”

Founded in 2008 by Patri Friedman and initially funded by Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, the Seasteading Institute at first had a lofty and libertarian goal to build in international waters in order to “establish new nations and spur competitive governance from the outside.” But the expense of building in remote oceanic areas, along with the access to land these proposed cities would need, convinced the organization to build its first prototypes adjacent to a nation or territory.

Read the full Article here: http://www.triplepundit.com/2017/02/floating-cities-climate-change-adaptation/

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