Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 months agoWhy has no one thought of this before?!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1698arrow-down110
arrow-up1688arrow-down1imageWhy has no one thought of this before?!lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squareNIB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoThats literally what China is doing atm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_Sand
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·6 months agoI wouldn’t call creating some artificial islands with sand is ‘literally’ doubling the size of a continent into the ocean.
minus-squareA_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoThat was just a tiny first step … give it a few thousand years and some cement mixed in with the sand. Of course we would need many thousand years without big wars… which is not sure, and far from it.
minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoAnd creating environmental catatrophes to do it.
Thats literally what China is doing atm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_Sand
I wouldn’t call creating some artificial islands with sand is ‘literally’ doubling the size of a continent into the ocean.
That was just a tiny first step … give it a few thousand years and some cement mixed in with the sand.
Of course we would need many thousand years without big wars… which is not sure, and far from it.
And creating environmental catatrophes to do it.
Dubai beat them to the idea.