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Aerial view of Buxton, NC in the outer banks.
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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 coastal towns along the east coast of the United States, especially
the barrio islands of North Carolina that make up the outer banks are now under
water. The flat sandy coastline of North Carolina is now under a shallow ocean.
The earth has warmed and most of the glaciers have melted back into the ocean
causing the sea levels to rise around the world. Over 5,000 years, the cost to
restore the sandy beaches and replace coastal homes have risen beyond a rational
cost so the government had to step in and declare the coastal areas national
parks and relocate the millions of residence of the east coast to the middle of
the country.
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| The shallow ocean that now covers the low country of the East Coast. |
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. After a couple decades of refining the underwater habitats, many major
coastal cities in America such as Wilmington are now mostly under water
structures that were built to sustain the once thriving population. Companies
like the Shimizu Corporation have perfected these under water structures. In
2018 we were just starting to solve this problem.
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A Prototype of a under water habitate from the Shimizu Corporation
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Here is a link to the Shimizu
Companies prototype.
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