Re:Built on Sand: Singapore and the New State of Risk
by Someone on Sunday January 25, 2015 @06:05AM
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It doesn't have to be slowly. China is building islands at over 1000 km of its mainland in the Spratley islands: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8701/index.h...
This is one of the craziest articles I have ever read.
It is like the premise of a sci-fi novel where future states slowly creep along by dredging and filling in land. But it's actually really happening at a scale beyond novelties like Dubai and non-contentious (at least internationally) expansions like Battery Park City.
The fact that sand-smuggling is a thing...