Floating-isle concept intrigues French Polynesia
Stricken by floods from global warming, it looks into moving to 'seasteads'
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WHEN former Google software engineer Patri Friedman came up with the idea of building floating islands, he had in mind unusual buyers: libertarians, seeking freedom to live beyond the reach of governments.
But his futuristic plan has now found a new, motivated and very different audience - small islands halfway around the world that are slowly being submerged by rises in the sea level.
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