Cities from the sea: the true cost of reclaimed land

We haven’t managed to do much about climate change in the past 35 years and now we’re at a point where we need to change our society so radically in 3-5 years that it just won’t happen.

Since it won’t happen, that million dollar apartment with ocean view is sort of a scam. Because that’s really not where you want to live in 20 years. Right now the best place to buy property is in one of the few geographical locations that won’t get absolutely fucked by climate change, and reclaiming the ocean is the opposite of that.

Looks like the issue is the pace of the development along with marine ecosystem disruption (they throw in a bit about fishers, but that's a distractive side issue).

So that makes me wonder, in places where land near the sea is more or less unimpeded by mountain, can they not just as easily, and perhaps more so, carve wide channels and create similar land-sea living environments? Do all you shaping and digging and then at the end, blow the dikes and let the sea rush in and settle.

Instead of taking land to the sea, bring the sea to land.