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    The document discusses several examples of floating societies including lake villages in Benin built to avoid slave capture, the Aequorea which is a submerged structure made from recycled plastic that produces its own energy through bioluminescence, and the Lilypad designed as a floating city for climate refugees that can house 50,000 people and withstand strong hurricanes. Pros of floating societies are that they can generate energy and food from the water while cons include the challenges of funding, psychological adaptation, and impacts on aquatic ecosystems.

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    2020

    Advanced English

    Floating societies
    Alma Hernández
    World Meteorological
    Organization (2019)

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    Ganvie, Benin,
    Africa.
    The lake village was created in the
    sixteenth or seventeenth centuries
    by the Tofinu people who took to the
    lake to avoid Fon warriors capturing
    slaves for sale to European traders.

    3
    Aequorea
    (Oceanscraper)

    Submerged structure made from 3D-


    printed plastic waste (Algoplast)

    • Bioluminiscent, light-emitting
    jellyfish
    • Tentacles enable it to swim and
    ensure its stability, while producing
    its own energy.
    • It relies on the natural buoyancy.

    AGREGAR UN PIE DE PÁGINA 4


    © Vincent Callebaut Architectures
    Lilypad
    Floating ecopolis for climate refugees

    • Waterlily design
    • Zero emission
    • Hold approximately around 50,000
    people
    • Intended to be either near a coast, or
    floating around in the ocean
    • It can withstand Category 5 hurricanes

    © Vincent Callebaut Architectures

    5
    Comparison
    x

    Pros Cons
    • Aquatic gardens for growing food • It lacks funding.
    • Desalination plant • Psychological obstacles
    • Energy generation through solar, • Effects on aquatic ecosystems
    wind and wave power. (illumination, motion and migration)
    • CO2 processing by absorbing it into a
    titanium dioxide skin.

    6
    Thank you!

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