Seasteading
Subtitle: how floating nations will restore the environment, enrich the poor, cure the sick, and liberate humanity from politicians
By: Joe Quirk with Patri Friedman
Contributors: Friedman, Patri, 1976- author
Edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781451699265
Subjects: Urbanization; Marine resources; Forecasting; City-states; Artificial islands; Economic aspects
Description: "What if ... the way to decrease ocean pollution is to increase ocean populations? ... the way to decrease the number of wars is to increase the number of countries? ... the way to discover political solutions is to empower your political enemies? ... we don't need to fight when we can float? ... it's easier to float than fly? ... we built civilization in the wrong place? ... you could create your own microcountry at sea?"--Page [ix].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-345) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Seavilization now; title: Home: this isn't planet Earth; title: Houses: cities that clean the seas; title: II. Environment; title: Food: feed the world with greenhouse gas; title: Fish: farms that swim with fish; title: Fuel: the ocean is a solar panel; title: III. Economy; title: Wealth: the miracle of start-up societies; title: Health: faster, cheaper, better, fluid care; title: IV. Freedom; title: Fear: war, waves, pirates, pollution, price!; title: History: rights flow from frontiers; title: Flow states: how to double global wealth.