Comments on: Floating a solution to Pacific problems https://www.policyforum.net/floating-solution-pacific-problems/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:55:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: Seasteading Supporter https://www.policyforum.net/floating-solution-pacific-problems/#comment-8317 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:55:27 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=16466#comment-8317 The initial Seasteads are floating platforms in a special economic zone. By definition special economic zones exist in someone else’s territory but offer more favorable economic and/or political conditions than the surrounding territory, for example with lower import duties. They do not offer full political autonomy. Therefore comments about full political autonomy and lack of rules are both uninformed and moot.

Regarding environmental degradation, the Seasteads in French Polynesia are required by the governing law to not pollute, and are expected to be powered from a combination of renewable energy and local power, such as grid-tied photovoltaic, wind and wave power.

Seasteads will be funded by investors, not the host nation or taxpayers.

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