Climate change is continuing. It said fonts, sea levels are set to rise. Find the how can we respond technically, you can do lots. We have platforms here. Sometimes that survives hurricanes, find it friendly and results efficient, is living on water, a viable solution . Logins, technology. We need it now at scale can afford the many people dream of living, buying the water, and most big cities on located on the coast. Dont mind rivers pumping into a Governmental Panel on Climate Change says the welsh must brace itself for a one to, to meet, to rise in sea levels by the year 2100 utah cities continue to expand. Could we soon be living on the wall to its an idea that architects have been pursuing for decades. Big architects have plates with this theme. But i think the changes know that you go from dream to reality is because of the necessity. Because now with the whole organization with Climate Change, we need new solutions. Kuhn old house has committed himself to realizing this vision and has designed us at 300 floating buildings following the example of this hotel and from the 19 ages. But the idea of a floating neighborhood as an extension of an existing city has yet to really catch on. We see water as the ideal location where we can grow our cities and make it more safe, but also cheaper to build. If you have to protect your city with all this big goals for maybe 10 or 15 extra meters and then next to 100 years, then its better to already built on top of the water because that saver, you can just move up and down with it. Without coastal defense, theres one so just the netherlands would be on the water, but its a complex fees. The huge mesa and battery of protects the ruptured region from stone massages each k 2 is equivalent to the iphone tower. Uh, in terms of weight and size. Time gemini, to has been stephanie raising the height of liabilities over the last few decades. The danger doesnt just come from the sea, but rivers to. Its not just only about space or the fact that you can go up and down with what id say. Theres also flexibility, we really think thats our society is changing so rapidly. Political changes, technical changes, and a city has to, to act to the, the newest innovation. But cities are very slow. If you built a building and stays or 50 years or 70 years so you can change it based on whatever we can react very, very fast on the house and his team have designed to welds 1st Floating City in the multi 5000 detached homes, put 20000 people into connected by roads, canals and bridges. The ideal situation is we can just and goes out to the mouth road, take advantage of both, take them out to the, to the main, the docs and change them and bring them back. Cuz maintenance is more challenging. Than it would be on land, the bridges will probably need to be repaired every 20 years. To replacing them is not easy. As the cities utilities are interconnected and run but nice, the roads, bridges, and houses. The houses floats on pontoons that go down about 1. 2 meters into the sea. The price itself of a house to construct a house. It may be a little bit more expensive than building a lens because you, if youre floating foundation. But if you could talk about the present, the cost of these kind of the structures is less because the price of water, the price of land below water is of course less than then land in the middle to city. So the total development can be much more affordable than the lens and does necessary because we dont want to build on the front of it if you really want to solve problems in cities. Same as in molly, you have to build affordable housing, the, the capital of the moves with its population of 250000 people spread across just 8 square kilometers. Its busting at the seams. Its not unusual for a family of 10 to share a 2 room apartments. The Tropical Heat is hot to bed without and conditioning. But monet continues to draw people from the small and more remote outlying islands, as it offers Better HealthCare Education and jump on put unit is the thing more, this feels the Environment Impact most from the world and was, you know, so now me and these seemed this Sea Level Rise every day, and its a need for us to expand the population into small islands. So people started believing our wanting to see an alternate to for explanation at home, more safe layoff expand in life on the sea. And the more it is. So the believe this is the right time which will be liable and also practical. 15 minutes away from the capital by boat, a private Company Called dr. Duncans, hes building the Floating City in a 200 heck 10 lagoon of a current rates. The 1st full homes have just been completed with the price tank, a 250000. 00 euros for a house with an area of 220 square meters, a pro space there. Also an option for the islands middle class is concealed underneath. So wouldnt houses, there is modern technology. Its not chance of great want to recycling plants from watering the trees. Only time will tell how the sensitive ecosystem of the car will respond to the house. Is morning the traffic and altered conference. Those involved say the city will be environmentally friendly and climate neutral. This is exactly how it look like we have singled story or 2 story houses. We have sand on the street. We will direct electricity from solar or other turbines under the sea. And we will use the sea water to cool the systems want to draw him from the deep sea, with a temperature of 7 degrees celsius is transferred to the wounds. By removing the necessity for air conditioning, Energy Consumption can be reduced by 60 percent, wind and wave power cover the all the energy needs. And this city has everything, the city has like football, brown. So most offices, everything thats old. When our parents lived, you could go fishing, you could jump into the water of any warranty. We dont need to tech said to see the see, the kind of thing. So either this is more like a village, but used to building modern technology. A beautiful high tank Floating City that responds to the challenges of Climate Change. A seemingly seductive vision. Im not they optimistic about how quickly we will be able to adapt. Is the Technology Like floating technology, make sure to be able to be used in countries when most of our country is the vast ocean . So its an interesting idea, but i am very hesitant to believe that that is the solution for Climate Change because the real issues that were trying to address is reducing. I will call the emissions the more dates are confronted with the impact of Climate Change caused primarily by other countries. Molly no longer has a proper beach. The capital of the island is surrounded by concrete coastal defenses. As it lies only half a meter above sea level, the government already spends 30 percent of its budget on adapting to Climate Change. Yet it badly needs the money for schools, hospitals, and roads. I dont want to see a country that is uninhabitable in my lifetime, and if things go business as usual, that could be a possibility. But i still want to think that this too is time for us to reverse this and save countries like us. At 1 point, one degrees today, we are experiencing a coastal erosion on every single island. Every single island in the morning. This where more defenseless have renate fresh water. We are increasingly being flooded. During the rainy days, we have more issues with coastal inundation now and above or ill. Duty for rates are being bleached every year because every year is a warm year now in europe to with feeling the impact of Climate Change. A city is also becoming increasingly built top most redone is here in amsterdam concert for to live in the center house boats that existed in the netherlands for centuries now. So why not make great to use of the waterways available . The a 2010, a new neighborhood was created. 15 minutes from the hall to of amsterdam. It comprises just on the 60 homes, some privately owned, the others affordable rentals. 12 years ago steps parents also decided to buy a home here the we didnt want to be in like a traditionally like these neighborhoods of newly built houses with all these houses next to each other with a garden on the same side. And the last sailing and stuff, lots of water. So that was then an easy, easy decision to make to come to this house. Yeah. Especially the fact that the bose can be next to your house or, and one of the slips down to the doctor. Thats perfect. Its not standard and it is with water around their neighbors. So the neighbors. Yeah. Sasha and yeah, i felt the city center was just too crowded. They wanted us some to be able to play alone outdoors. All the neighbors traditionally go for a new, he is swimming together. Its like a village in the middle of the city. A Strong Community failing has grown up over the years in stock or island houses, and jetta is rise in full with the water levels. The lower floor was largely already lying, but as though the water line, so its a concrete box which is listed partly with a floating uh, basic cues and they put them on there to level it because one of the things that yeah, if is, if i have more stuff, the neighbor i yeah, the house is like that says, one of the reasons why things, why we also have a lot of contact with neighbors is just to get to discuss things. Because if you put a piano there and then you know they have a problem. So while the problem button is these, somethings wrong with the barbecue, the, the Water Quality is good. The fish unhappy swimming between the houses, brought in strong winds. The Floating Homes stopped to rock, the center of gravity is too high. Something architects today would plan with greater stability if you see how big the forests are on these honest its does quite extreme. And in all honesty i sometimes um, yeah, wonder how long this house actually will be here. And this house is 10 years old. Im not sure if it will get to a 100 to be honest. These powerful forces have already caused cranking Floating Homes, requiring more maintenance than those on dry land pen stand modular construction, where components can be more easily replaced, recycled or red pad. How safe is it living on the water at the Maritime Research institute and the netherlands scientists can simulate extreme weather conditions using wind and wave generators to see what floating solar panels or floating cities can, which stands for lost files, knows how much can be done to adapt structures to rock conditions on the open sea. I believe that from what we know from the offshore development, thats, that you can do lots, technically speaking like we, we have platforms here sometimes that survive a hurricane says, are we making this bass in the wind and the waves and the Current Associated to a hurricane event and then we look at the surprise infinity of such a platform. Technically you can do a lot. You have to, to, to discuss what do you accept as a, as a cost. Models of floating islands also tested here. The homes represented here by blocks have to stay stable in the water to prevent the inhabitants getting seasick. You need to find either a flexible connection. Then you will allow for some motion in a big storm that helps in, in a big storm that you have a little bit of flexibility to reduce the forces inside the items. But if you connect been rigidly that it becomes one big from 2. And if it starts to move less and um, and thats going to be also beneficial, but at the cost of the Larger Forces inside, inside the island, these floating solar power facility could make an important contribution to Energy Production in the future for floating cities as well the solar panel is in full scale 25 meters wide and 7 meters high, big enough to let waste through underneath. The idea is for them to be located between offshore wind turbines, in the north sea, where conditions would be a real challenge for a Floating City. If you notice in the north sea, for example, then then the forces are still very large. That if you do it with more in chains, you need a lot of more in chains to do really 6 to i left. And you look into here is combinations. So you can make, uh, for example, in the north sea is not as deep so you can do on a, um, a reef artificial reef which is basically send stones which are mounted to the sea bed and they protect from the largest waste. Right now it would still be very expensive to and floating islands in the north sea without a battery, a floating neighborhood. So likewise, easier to set up and protected wont, is about the development of flexible infrastructure, is searching a hand south. Korea has plans to build an adult, spending the land and see who should not wait too long with the research because it also takes time. Like all the big infrastructural developments into that list. I have spoken about 4050 years to, to bill and, and, and a lot of research was done before they were actually built in the time is now if he wants to have the solutions by the year 2100, germany still tends to stick to Traditional Fund walter, Defense Strategy is raising levies and Building Fund was bought in hamburg. That means the river elbow has become increasingly constrained, in particular by measures taken after the 1962 storm surge, with a difference in water level between high and low tide, already mold and dumpling. The risk of flooding is growing. Profess onto a stock mountain thanksgiving rivers, more space would make war to side living a safe option in the long time the s to flog. The 1st question is on rethinking the idea of always piling up or is there building more was on the come on . First of all, it was in how can we build on land so that we give water more rooms there to bone. We can create flood plains that are built to use space and in and to be in man or who comes by to i. So space can have a dual function to respond to flooding clause the of a part that can be temporarily flooded but is a park when its dry and pull the food to die. So dish of often is talking, this impact is as high as the houses that are propped up all the stilts are built on mounds. There are many, many strategies that we need to consider more rigorously on land to midday. Listen, all of them loud. Should we create more flood plain areas that we use more creatively, floating kinda things like this one here by the elder. Ill still a rarity despite being easy to build more and more residential developments involving designed reclamation, being created from the young man named by amsterdam instead of opting for floating flexibility germany and the netherlands continue to bank on stability. And meanwhile, on the mold eaves, the current reef by the capital continues to be filled with sand. Hulu. Mama is one of the worlds biggest Construction Projects designed to combat Climate Change and create a living space alongside the 24. 00 story skyscrapers. There is also a charming residential neighborhood. The occupational island lies to meet us above sea level that has been down to the island of hope by local inhabitants. 80 percent of the multisite is not even one meter above sea level. Today it houses more than a 100000 people safely. It doesnt flood it is not affected by coastal swelling. Its a double edged sword for us because the impact of reclamation and the what it has on our equal systems that are really for a job. But also what do we do with the rising tide . So we dont have a Higher Ground to go to the consequences of the project and making themselves felt everywhere while the carlos are dying in punk because of trying to waste the construction settlement is also depriving the corals of our former School Direct to ultimate site. No longer recognizes the reach, so face childhood reeves that also the nursery and the feeding ground for numerous patients species the result or did part of it and this is used to be private but largely due reading, especially the connecticut life of 75 percent of all multibillion carl reeves that already debt extreme heat is mainly responsible, but Land Reclamation projects have also that to carl depths. So each says that the occupational goes inhabitants have not been sufficiently informed about the impact. Trying to say the floating cities are gentle, the intervention in this fragile ecosystem flow to say facebook and structures fucking technology. We need it now. We need it now at scale at an affordable rate. These, this needs to come to the multics. Now, time is running out in defense talks were held with a government in 2008, but the Floating CityPilot Project continues to face delays. The thought is really would definitely be uh right now the best solution that you would want uh most just like that where you have, uh uh you are you still in here about lots of social evils and lots of things happen. And some people like one just city, do you see that happening in other countries . Germany isnt facing such drastic challenges as similar. Daves population growth in the cities is causing housing problems. No floating districts on the agenda yet. However, this is what this is info does it really make sense to create new city neighborhoods on a big scale on the sea or on the rivers order . Wouldnt it be better to reconsider all kinds of land use section know to dolphin, we could flood certain areas protected by levies and creates loading, green houses. There must some dodge women to convict scores. I think. Think about how to organize high yield market gardening for love to talk with them. But rather than saying, well keep that as it is and expand out to the river to who that is not often often flows flooded zones could be used for growing food and not just to be human habitation. Overseas on our doorsteps could help feed floating or conventional cities locally based marine, a quick culture could help preserve over faced stokes. And the wild biologist mounting and move and colleagues from the kill sea food from our researching, how to create a sustainable sun can economy the levels, heres what they need. So what if we think ahead into the future and imagine that we will be living on and increasingly with water and operating aquaculture directly on our doorsteps. And then i could imagine that we could raise fish, but then we would also have to grow c, we to make it circular by the customer for this, not from that. And i guess what, were talking about big quantities. And if we produce one ton of fish had one spot, then wed have to produce 7 tons of muscles that another and algae species to, in order to remove the nutrients created by the feeding the excrement of the fish. Instead of, you know, that would make it circular and caused still one Pilot Project. It involves the growing and processing of c. We the sugar account does not just help to improve the bowl takes walter quality. Its also rich in proteins and mom from the Food Industry is growing the items and say ive designed z weight is very healthy, not long so that you can call it a staple food. Im in seen of it as a lot of vitamins and minerals fiber. They can be eaten roll or boiled, or fried machine of, ill just wash it a bit on done and then im going to eat it, assist you with next. Its like a tuesday crisp. Let us its inside a bit sleep, but very tasty. About the calm one seated the seaweed grows on it so that the muscle farm also benefits the voltage because the muscles remove excess nutrients from disabling to the most of them is content. The muscles dont need theater fertilizer and they slip down whatever is in the baltic. Like a cocktail, they practically eat as a brief stuff of point. One single muscle filters about 2. 00 to 3. 00 leaders an hour, but i didnt have to worry. I know i thought youd need 6000 muscle farms like this one to filter out all the thoughts eliza run off washed into the sea by rivers long slice bake, whole shines, bolted. Co sign that is currently practicable. A closed Circuit Systems like this trim from a different its autonomous feed supply does not pollute the environment. The shrimps, swim and want to taken from the baltic sea, which is heated up with Energy Produced by a sewage ponds. In a research project, the used was a so well purified in contents that it could be fed back into the voltage without causing any pollution. With a full sized bodies in one advantage of the system, if that it isnt just the water that circulates, but also the nutrients just on the god, it doesnt matter if youre in floating cities or in the desert. Whats important is that you can create new human habitats with this kind of technology. Only a name is for most basic on the Island Capital of the multi site is not self sufficient. Monte impulse, almost everything including most of its fruits and vegetables. A Floating City would be just the same in this respect. Locals live from fishing and tourism sectors that depend on healthy reeves, which are being destroyed by Land Reclamation, and Climate Change. Floating cities could be one on. So i think thats were only at the beginning of these kind of structures and water. You will see that many more cities around the world to the biggest, sits around the world, are next to the water. They will start using the water and that will create worldwide flexibility. And i think flexibility means that we can react, but also theyll be much more sustainable. We use less energy and we can react to any change for the future environment minister and not showing a remain skeptical kind of floating cities be realized on a large scale and be ready in time to respond to Climate Change. Either way, keeping up is not an option. These are all very interesting ways we could possibly adapt to go on my word i, i think we can come together. And the reason why i say this is because with just imagine from a global pandemic. And in 6 months, we found vaccines in 6 months. We on look trillions of dollars. So the question is theres, its not the lack of money or its not the lack of technology. I wholeheartedly believe that. The issue here is the lack of political will and failure to understand that the Climate Crisis is and is an emergency across the well, there are people searching for Creative Solutions to the dangers posed by Climate Change. For ways of living mon sustainably. Soon we will see want floating cities have to offer on this from the old days with its fragile egos, systems could be leading the way, the motor sports scoring. We say theyre about never giving up sports flies every weekend on dw highly toxic asbestos. Its been banned for decades in many countries. Damage cost to people in doing via it is kind of strong. People take more than a 100 years to completely dispose of all this best. Those containers gutierrez only meant tell you. I know the never ending story of asbestos starts. June 21st on d. W. The success of the whole class knows im a foster child and im ok with that because im not the only foster child. There are other foster children to kenneth