Floating cities: The new future for climate refugees?

Grist
By Zoe SaylerApr 12, 2019, 10:55 am205 pts
Back in 2008, the famously right-wing PayPal founder Peter Thiel threw money at the idea of a floating city — a sort of drifting Mar-a-Lago, where the rich could escape tax-free to a virtually lawless paradise. But after pushback from Pacific Islanders who called the plan a form of colonialism, crucial…

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