According to Queen’s Counsel Richard Wilmot-Smith, speaking on behalf of Penguin Marine, “The islands are gradually falling back into the sea”. He went on to say that the World Islands show signs of “erosion and deterioration”. So far 70% of the world’s 300 islands have been sold, but all of the continents are uninhabited save for Greenland, which is owned by the ruler of Dubai.
Although the developer, Nakheel, claims that the project will eventually be completed and that it hasn’t observed any substantial signs of erosion, the project’s mounting costs and stalled construction may very well signify the end of The World as we know it.
Via The Telegraph
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Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25 The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!
Home run! Great slugigng with that answer!
I will add another simple proverb to the mix “A fool and his money are soon parted”.
When this project began, I knew it was not going to suceed for two reasons.
1 – Sand islands which have no supporting foundations like rocks or coral reefs are doomed to erode, I could not understand why the engineers did not mimic a real island by creating better artificial foundations to stop the eventual erosion.
2 – Tsunami… It would wipe them out in a flash and any body not thinking about that possibility would be trowing there money away for a harsh reality.
We as human beings do some stupid things in the name of power and greed. Sometimes that comes back to haunt us – big time!
As human we are digging our own grave by the name of creativity, technology and development.
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