I found this convincing - proposal to fill in the south bay and build houses there near San Jose. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vKErZy7TFhjxtyBuG/make-more-l

I found this convincing - proposal to fill in the south bay and build houses there near San Jose. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vKErZy7TFhjxtyBuG/make-more-land https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vKErZy7TFhjxtyBuG/make-more-... We've filled in a bunch of the bay already (Redwood Shores, Foster City) without problems, but stopped in the 70s. Cities like Boston which developed earlier had massive percentages of their bays taken over (>50%) without problems; but we've basically frozen this type of reclamation. The land along the bay shore is generally underused; there's at least 50sqm of salt ponds which produce very little value and aren't part of any historical ecosystem either.