The Coastal City I choose to visit is Buxton, NC. One of many little towns in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. 5,000 years have passed and despite our best efforts to combat climate change and costal beach erosion, most of the outer banks are now under water. The Eastern portion of North Carolina is now a shallow ocean. The earth has warmed and the glaciers have shrunk, which has caused the ocean levels to rise around the world. Over 5,000 years, the cost to repair beach erosion has sky rocketed and a lot of the current beach land was ultimately lost to the rising seas.
Because most of the coastal cities were facing the threat of the ocean, We have put more research into creating a livable habitat under water. The Major coastal cities in North Carolina such as Wilmington are now mostly under water structures that were built to sustain the global population. Companies like the Shimizu Corporation have perfected these under water structures. In 2018 we were just starting to solve this problem. Here is a link to the Shimizu Companies prototype. japanese-firm-plans-worlds-first-underwater-city-powered-by-sustainable-energy/
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