The Seasteading Institute is positive that someday in the future, we'll have to migrate away from land and into renewable-energy powered floating cities. So sure, in fact, that they ran a competition for seastead designs for permanent, stationary structures that would allow for long-term ocean living. From the off-shore floating research laboratory shown above to a Jetsons-esque enclosure, WebUrbanist has a detailed round-up of the five winning entries. Link
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Why am I reminded of Arrested Development?
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Since we're depleting resources/polluting the oceans at a pace that far exceeds that of what we're doing on land, why would they think that was a viable option?
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so... Waterworld.
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Sure, I can't think of any harmful consequences, so why not? And don't say because an argument from ignorance is not a good argument, I have no idea what that means.
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