A group of architects from the Netherlands have a crazy idea to take all the plastic floating out there in the Pacific Ocean, and recycle it into a floating island the size of Hawaii. Climate refugees would be able to move there and live in recycled plastic homes, and work on farms or grow seaweed.
A group of architects from the Netherlands have a crazy idea to take all the plastic floating out there in the Pacific Ocean, and recycle it into a floating island the size of Hawaii. Climate refugees would be able to move there and live in recycled plastic homes, and work on farms or grow seaweed. The entire island would be totally self-sufficient once built, producing its own food and energy, and managing waste. While totally off the wall, this is an intriguing concept that gets our imaginations in motion about what we can do with that ginormous mass of plastic floating around in the ocean! Inhabitat
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More senseless greening.
Global warming is a con, environmentalists are asking for their own shackles.
a brilliant transfer of what they already know how to do in the land of the polder to an application that addresses contemporary issue. cool!
It is cool and maybe I'm being too cynical, but I'm getting pretty tired of the latest architecture firm going for some headline-grabbing gimmick (or perhaps just an outlandishly whimsical idea) in the name of solving a social ill. There are plenty of ways to address issues such as global warming, poverty and displaced persons (and a need for plenty of innovation and intelligent people to work toward solving these issues), but most of these solutions are not so glamorous and don't make for such an eye-popping rendering. These sort of intriguing ideas that will not themselves be implemented have a place insofar as they inspire more actionable ideas, but I fear that much more energy is devoted to these initial ideas than anything that is ever implemented.
Stupid idea. The ginourmous mass of plastic in the ocean is spread over a great area, the Pacific is only the largest ocean of the planet, and is physically impossible to sweep all of it searching for plastic, which is scattered in pieces measuring less than 1 meter, often transparent, or clear-colored (enough to be confused with jellyfish by the sealif3e, being ingested)
No big projects will solve our environmental problems, but the reduction of consumption and state regulations for environmental practices in the industry and commerce.
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