A Solution to Rising Seas

With around 40% of the world’s population living in coastal areas, sea level rise is a challenge that will impact countless millions.

Blue Frontiers’ Seasteads will effectively provide these affected populations with new floating ‘land’ for re-settlement. They will allow the establishment of stable commercial and community infrastructure, including resources for food and energy production. They will also allow the development of facilities for medical treatment, scientific research and accelerated technological innovation. Most importantly, Seasteads will be future-proofed against further sea level rise.

Current solutions to sea level rise include dams, land reclamation, or moving. Dams and land reclamation both have considerable negative effects on the environment, are overly costly, and land reclamation has been shown not to last. Many coastal communities can’t or don’t want to move. In the case of smaller islands, there isn’t anywhere nearby for them to go. The social and economic cost for millions to move their existing businesses and lives would be immense. For example, sea level rise in the islands of Kiribati in the Pacific could force the evacuation of the entire country by 2050, resulting in a loss of their political and economic sovereignty.

The world’s megacities

Seasteads are a more cost effective and ecologically restorative solution, as well as being quicker to build and globally deploy than alternative options. They allow coastal communities to continue their way of life and to transition along with the ocean without great social and economic disruption. Additionally, seaborne settlements can be up to 130 times more efficient for food and energy production than those based on land.

As the recognised global leader in pioneering Seastead technology and development, Blue Frontiers has positioned itself to capture a very large portion of this vast new market. Some Seastead communities will also operate independently with decentralised economies powered by cryptocurrencies, such as Blue Frontier’s Varyon ERC20 token. Economic studies predict the first seastead to create a local ecosystem of hundreds of new jobs and millions of dollars in growth.