The problem of global warming with a thundercloud hangs over our planet. The waters of the World Ocean can get out of the shores and flood all coastal cities and villages, sweeping away everything in their path. In order to protect the inhabitants of dangerous zones, the UN department for sustainable development together with the Oceanix club created a plan for the construction of large floating cities in which you can live a full -fledged life, produce the necessary energy and even grow vegetables and fruits.
Read about the unique project for the construction of floating villages of the future in our material.The UN explores the possibility of building floating cities due to an increasing water level in the oceans.
90% of the largest cities on the planet are at risk of being flooded if the water level rises due to global warming.
Modular platforms that are attached using anchors to the seabed can be interconnected in a circle. People will be able to settle on these platforms. Thus, you can live right on the ocean waves.
The UN Habitat department, which works on the development of cities, will unite with the private company Oceanix, the Massachusetts Technological Institute and the professional group The Explorers Club to develop the best concept.
Swimming cities are the best solution for the future. The association plans to build a prototype of such a village in the coming months and open it for the public. Heist River, next to the UN headquarters, want to lower him onto the waters.
In order for people to live in a floating city with a full -fledged life, they plan to create the basis for growing agricultural crops, as well as systems for replenishing water and energy reserves.
Around the idea of floating cities, many controversy flare up. Some believe that they are created to take attention from the most important problems of global warming, others – that such villages can turn into the habitat of the richest people. In Dubai, for example, floating villas are already sold near the coastal zone, so the rich will probably want to buy a house on the waves.
The project has become an incentive for the development of the latest research in water management, ocean engineering and farming. Unique developments in order for floating cities to provide themselves and be safe during storms and other natural phenomena are already carried out by specialists.
According to the latest data from the intergovernmental group to change the climate, the temperature on the planet rose 1.5 degrees, compared with pre -industrial times. Until 2100, the water level in the oceans can rise by 77 centimeters.
The Nobel Laureate, economist Joseph Stiglitz says that many of the innovative technological developments for floating cities can be successfully used on land.
Global warming will inevitably lead to negative consequences. Swimming cities are one of the ways to save humanity from an impending catastrophe. But society should pay attention to the main causes of such changes in nature and take care of the environmental health of the planet in order to stay on land for a longer.
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