A envisioning of New York where the land is water and the water is land.

The Do-Over : Re-colonizing the Earth 

UN experts say that our oceans could be fishless by 2048, becoming barren deserts by the year 2050. The Los Angeles drought is “over” but we’ve only got one year of water stored and Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins are 34 million acre-feet below normal level in 2014. We’ve killed off the coral reefs and we’ve leeched the nutrients from our soil. Our conservation techniques and tactics as we know them are failing. What we need now is to celebrate the human resilience and explorer-like wonder of our past and re- discover our world. To re-colonize the Earth and get a do-over. 

What if our skyscrapers are the best option for new coral reefs and the Marianas Trench could be our new, Grander-Grand Canyon? We don’t need to build cities upon cities if we build where no one on earth has built before. It would be the ultimate re-use. More space for more people, new land and only the best and newest technology. Now all we have to do is drain the ocean and change water to land and land to water.