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They wanted to basically create more heartland at the cost of coasts. Problem being, in XXI century nobody wants the heartland. Nobody wants "land" to settle o
by thriftwy 9y ago
They wanted to basically create more heartland at the cost of coasts.
Problem being, in XXI century nobody wants the heartland. Nobody wants "land" to settle on anymore. Land is a liability where farmers who demand subsidies and channel them to Monsanto live. Everybody want coast to settle near. So it's not so much geoengineering as geoterrorism.
- mech422 9y agowow - biased much ? personally, having lived near the coast and now living in an inland desert - I can say I vastly prefer the desert. 'everybody' indeed...
- Chris2048 9y agoAnd is your rent higher or lower in the desert?
- timthelion 9y agoI agree that more people want to live on the coasts, but this is not a valid metric, given there is much more inland real-estate than coastal real-estate.
- thriftwy 9y agoWhy isn't it a valid metric for a project that wanted to turn coasts to inland? Isn't it basically the only one? Under this project, several countries would have lost their coasts for good.
- Chris2048 9y agoIt would seem since there is already more supply, increasing inland supply even more won't increase its desirability.. Are you saying coastal property is only desirable because it is rare?
- thriftwy 9y agoIf it's only desirable because it is rare, still the project would destroy all the existing coastal supply making what's left grotesquely overpriced. Also all the people of cities on coasts currently will be virtually expropriated.
- mseebach 9y agoIt's not about people wanting to live near the coast. Living on the coast with a view commands a significant premium, but as a luxury, not because it's productive. Land simply isn't the constraining factor for economic growth any more. Not because people do or don't want to live on it, but because we don't need (very much of) it for farming. These days, the economic centres are cities -- coastal or otherwise, although often coastal, but for redundant historical reasons.