Innovations can change the world and can at the same time be very controversial. China has built an amazing machine that can build islands in a short amount of time, that they are using to control the seas in shipping channels. It is alarming the amount of destruction it can cause environmentally. They hold record of reef destruction in the seas. Not a record to be respected. It is impressive what the machine can do, but in the wrong hands it is equally amazing the destruction it can do.
The machine / ship pulls up massive amounts of materials from the sea bottoms and displaces it on reefs or rock formations on the sea to make islands appear where they never existed in recent times. For China it is a territory grab to control ship travel and build defense platforms.
This is not a new idea. Palm Tree Island in the Dubi was built for real estate development. It to changed the environment we live in. It to dredged the bottom of the sea to develop human inhabitable land from the creatures and materials that had previously lived there.
The question will remain, Can we use this technology for good? Will it be used to save land for humans as the seas rise for global warming. Stay tuned!
