Floating cities are a bad idea!

NBC today show announces floating cities are back on course – NO! NO! This is a very bad idea... We must respect the vital role our oceans play in the health and survival of our planet. They regulate our climate and provide us with precious resources – food and water, just to name two. The oceans, though seemingly inexhaustible and forgiving, are actually fragile ecosystems under assault by human activity. The oceans are absorbing the bulk of the CO2 emissions we create, depleting the level of dissolved oxygen in the water, threatening all aquatic life. The oceans are slowly but surely being polluted by runoff wastes, plastics and other garbage carelessly discarded. Calcification is increasing, destroying entire species of shellfish and crustaceans. Food chains are being disrupted by over fishing. Ted Danson's great book Oceana, describes in detail the threats that our oceans are facing everyday – a very worthwhile read if you're at all concerned about our planet.

And now, we want to place densely populated cities on the water! I can't even imagine the pollution the cities would create and the eyesore these monstrous floating debacles would present floating on the horizons, but more importantly, they would accelerate the rising temperatures in the oceans. If the ocean's temperature increases, even slightly, global climate change will accelerate. The gigantic thermal currents that regulate the weather and the seasons throughout the world could come to a halt. Global disaster would be evident.

I addressed this issue in my book, Sealand 1001, two years ago. I had hoped that the silly idea had been dropped, but now greedy entrepreneurs are looking once again to toss aside sensible growth and development, for profit. DO NOT support these efforts! Just say no to overuse and development of the oceans.