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> New land is created all the time. The netherlands has created an entire new province.

You're 'technically correct' but the total amount of land being created is so small as to be meaningless in a global sense.

Your arguments are fixated on extreme corner cases. I'm not sure what you are arguing for.

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Theyre an edge case warrior, best to ignore them lest you want to spend an age addressing every niche circumstance.

Til: Edge case warrior

I think i invented the phrase for that comment, pretty sure i havent seen it elsewhere

>You're 'technically correct' but the total amount of land being created is so small as to be meaningless in a global sense.

By that argument we don't even need to create any land at all. There is plenty of empty or nearly empty land all over the world. It may not be as desirable as specific places, but i can assure you the cost to make large swathes of land inhabitable by humans is comparatively low.

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