Seaflooding
This feels like an over-simplification of the benefits. I have yet to be convinced that filling an area with salted water, which by evaporating will only increase the salt concentration, can host a thriving ecosystem.<p>I'm also having trouble buying the argument that to lower the salt concentration we can extract it and sell the salt. Sure we can, but are talking about the same scale here?<p>Moreover, it may look like a hostile place, but I'm sure that in all the examples given there are populations there, maybe nomadic, and there are organisms that live there.<p>Finally, I find it interesting than when illustrating the Quattara seat, the author has added green around it, but I see no reason for that greening to be there at all when a few hundred kilometres north on the border of the current Mediterranean sea there's nothing. After all, same region, roughly same altitude, same water, but even higher salt concentration.<p>So yeah, I love the futurism aspect of the article, it makes me dream of a techno-solution, but I remain unconvinced though I'd love to be wrong.