7 minutes agoFlying Cities Save Us From Global Warming
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The United Nations organization is studying opportunities to build floating cities in various parts of the world as an opportunity to lower the ever - increasing sea level. 90% of the world's largest cities are endangered by floods due to glacier melting and growth [...]
90% of the largest cities in the world are endangered by floods due to glacier melting and rising sea level, a UN study warns. For this reason, the organisation has launched a project to design and shape future life on several platforms that will be positioned at sea, connected in ring form with each other.
UN-Habiat, the UN urban development office, will co-operate in this project with private company “Oceanix”, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and “Explorers Club”, an association of field professionals, to advance the concept.
“Fleet cities are one of the possible solutions”, said UN-Habita Executive Director Maimunah Moed Sharif. Within months, the first prototype to be seen by the public will be built, as it will be located in the eastern river at UN headquarters in New York. Another version will be built in Copenhagen.
The project's opponents say it could draw attention to the search for solutions to the fundamental problems of climate change, but also that living in those cities would be affordable only by super rich people, thus leaving communities of people with little income to the mercy of fate.
