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The sea is pretty effectively reclaiming land back from them at this point. It's not a winning battle these days. It's also not so simple to build Manhattan style buildings on a sandpit

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I'm curious which lost land you are referring to.

Building skyscrapers on former swamps is indeed difficult.

There is no logic to your claim at all. It is simply an engineering problem.

The problem is natural disasters and catastrophes can beat human engineering most of the time.

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