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Our Future of Living on the Water - Floating Cities?
Provided by:
Undecided with Matt Ferrell
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Published on:
April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
With populations and sea levels rising, this video presents seasteading, or floating communities, as a solution to finding more space to live.
Students will learn about plans for building Oceanix City, a floating city designed to withstand category 5 hurricanes.
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Subjects:
Geography
Authors:
Undecided with Matt Ferrell
Region:
Asia, North America, USA - Northeast, USA - South, United States, Global, New York, New York City, Louisiana
Languages:
English
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Positives
This video explains how floating cities will grow food, produce clean energy, and desalinate and recycle water.
The video exposes students to multiple scientific technologies.
The video description contains a link to the video's script and citations.
Additional Prerequisites
There are ads before and during the video.
Students should be familiar with the threat of sea level rise.
Differentiation
Design or engineering classes could discuss the potential benefits and barriers to Oceanix City.
Students could work in small groups to learn more about a segment of the video and present their findings to the class.
Social studies classes could use this video to discuss solutions for climate migrants.
Other resources on this topic include this
resource
on sinking cities and this
article
on protecting coastal communities.
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