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“I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our coasts, and another book about evolution. Seasteading captivated me because it incorporates both evolution and environmental restoration.”

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If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads…

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Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a…

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I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive…

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Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in…

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“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.”

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Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

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A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

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Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas,…

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We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

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Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

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Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however they…

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You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

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