[AWPrime]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')the same thing is true about: cars, aircraft, normal cities, dams, dykes and whole lot of other things.

[gwmss15]

not quite a floating city but the capital city of brunei has around 30 % of the capitals popluation living on platform cities. these are areas that are built above the sea around 5 meters above the mean sea level. that are boat and foot access only via narrow plank ways. This kind of living is becomeing more poplular in south east asia and where major cities are built on low lying river delta land.

[Heineken]

Brunei, an oil state, is one of the richest countries in the world on a per capita basis. Such high-density coastal strategies as you describe are irrelevant from a post-PO, post-Collapse perspective. Especially if the oceans die, which is an increasingly likely prospect.

Giant engineering projects, like floating cities, are not a rational response to looming energy, environmental, and economic collapse. They are an extension of the 20th-century mindset that got us into this fix.

The only rational response is to scale down, power down, depopulate, simplify, and live closer to nature while doing everything we can do to heal her grievous wounds. Of course, we are not rational.

[AWPrime]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')he only rational response is to scale down, power down, depopulate, simplify, and live closer to nature while doing everything we can do to heal her grievous wounds. Of course, we are not rational.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AWPrime', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'T')he only rational response is to scale down, power down, depopulate, simplify, and live closer to nature while doing everything we can do to heal her grievous wounds. Of course, we are not rational.

[AWPrime]

Depends how far one will go.

Also living closer to nature might not be a solution, it my be best to leave nature alone. In other words, remove the human population in sensitive areas (but that is a subject for a new thread).

You main argument seem to be that the investment seems to high, am I correct?