Raising The Maldives.
"We do not want to leave the Maldives, but we also do not want to be climate refugees living in tents for decades".
President Mohamed Nasheed.
Raising the Maldives is probably a ridiculous idea, but surely worth some thought. Nothing ventured...
We can build islands, like Palm Island and the new Shanghai Container Port.
There are over 1190 coral islands and to raise them all might be a tad ambitious but surely some could be raised.
We could look at top slicing, mooring islands on chains, springs, foam injections.What about smart islands that rise and fall with sea levels? Even sinking large old cruise liners and aircraft carriers and bulding around them.
Or if raising is too complex what about replication? Move islands a bit at a time to a close, raised profile.
Money would obviously a problem. What about a tanker tax? Pay more but get healthy rebates for taking sand, soil and rocks to needy lowlying islands and shores. (Could also ship water from places like Bangladesh and return with soil, sand , rocks etc..again with rewarding rebates...)
Just a notion- any ideas ?
President Mohamed Nasheed.
Raising the Maldives is probably a ridiculous idea, but surely worth some thought. Nothing ventured...
We can build islands, like Palm Island and the new Shanghai Container Port.
There are over 1190 coral islands and to raise them all might be a tad ambitious but surely some could be raised.
We could look at top slicing, mooring islands on chains, springs, foam injections.What about smart islands that rise and fall with sea levels? Even sinking large old cruise liners and aircraft carriers and bulding around them.
Or if raising is too complex what about replication? Move islands a bit at a time to a close, raised profile.
Money would obviously a problem. What about a tanker tax? Pay more but get healthy rebates for taking sand, soil and rocks to needy lowlying islands and shores. (Could also ship water from places like Bangladesh and return with soil, sand , rocks etc..again with rewarding rebates...)
Just a notion- any ideas ?
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Comment by Ken Sexe on January 17, 2010 at 8:00pm -
There are also cities that are floating on the body of water that they sit on. For instance, there is a floating city in Peru (I forget the name at the moment) that is completely floating and is made of reeds (people go through the town and replace the reeds as they decompose. With a little bit of ingenuity I believe that they could make a nice tourist trap of it (of course there is susceptability to hurricanes/typhoons and such) and it does create more issues (i.e. where will the fresh water and food supply come from) but perhaps with a little bit of "po" we could figure it out :).
I do like the idea of sinking flotsam to make artificial islands. Sinking old WW2 stuff was performed off the coast of Florida in the States to rebuild coral colonies, and supposedly it has worked very well.
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Comment by Sinclair McLay on January 11, 2010 at 5:35am -
Kim I think you are dead on about the attention and effort devoted to terraforming other planets when parts of our own are falling apart. Surely – as would be the case with Europa – or any other off-planet, watery sphere- a little practice here on Earth would not go amiss ?
What about underwater villages? Or underwater-ready villages ? Or underwater-ready villages that are so designed as to easily enable islands to be built on top of them ?
Franis – your use of the word ‘coralling’ was a stroke of genius! However if through some process – nets. booms. tankers that ape the whale/krill swallowing thing – your flotsam idea comes together then you may be the mother of the mother of all recycling ideas !
Then of course there are existing landfill sites…
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Comment by Kim Jones on January 11, 2010 at 5:05am - These people are card-carrying economic/social refugees. The thing to do with them is to ask them where in the world they would choose to live if they couldn't live in their beautiful, ephemeral Maldives. Whatever their response is, it should be granted. A truly compassionate civilisation would do that. There are some planets where it happens this way.
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Comment by Franis on January 10, 2010 at 11:28pm -
Mooring an island is an interesting idea. But I have the feeling that the question is not "how to preserve the Maldives" but something else.
I heard that there is a huge amount of ocean flotsam - islands worth of it. Corralling this trash and building around it could be an answer, as you suggested by sinking old cruise liners and aircraft carriers. But the beautiful quality of the Maldives would be gone.
Part of the tourist attraction and charm of the Maldives is its ephemeral quality and jewel-like beauty. Perhaps moor the people who serve the tourists... rather than the islands.
Maybe that is the question: What to do with people who have lived in a beautiful, ephemeral place off a tourist economy when the situation that has sustained them is about to go gone?
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Comment by Kim Jones on January 9, 2010 at 10:30pm
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Go to the top of the class!
Howabout UNDERWATER CITIES!!! You don't have to be James Cameron to see the writing on the wall:
Who adapt survive
Mankind will go to the planet Mars first, solve all the problems concerned with getting a toehold there, will come back and go "Oh. Now we know how to solve this, this, this and this on Earth as a result of the huge push we made to get to Mars."
Its this kind of thing that makes me weep...
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