3 ms·
Land is rarely made. It happens naturally occasionally and man made at great expense, like in the UAE
by newsclues 5y ago
Land is rarely made.
It happens naturally occasionally and man made at great expense, like in the UAE
- jefftk 5y agoWe actually used to do a lot of it even in the US. Compare San Francisco or Boston to their original boundaries. (I also think we should resume: https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-more-land https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-more-land)
- marvin 5y agoPlus, look at an aerial photograph of a non-metropolitan area and see how much of it is covered by buildings. Not a whole lot. With the current global population, real estate is generally scarce only because there is local democratic consensus for maintaining scarcity. (NIMBY)
- thehappypm 5y agoLand is rarely made, but in the US there are vast areas of lands that are federally owned that the government would be happy to find uses for.
- benibela 5y agoWe could get a lot of new land from a Mars colony