\n\n\n\n\n\nThe last paragraph is interesting to me, cause it\u2019s like, yeah, you\u2019re giving up an important part of your culture, but then again, that important part of your culture has caused people to die needlessly.
\nThe traditional Japanese way of dealing with this while retaining harmony with the sea is to engrave large stones as a warning to your future descendants, and then live above that waterline.\u00a0 When it has actually been followed, it has been reasonably successful.
\nOf course, something like this was going to happen.\u00a0 As climate change continues, this sort of cyberpunk-industrial monstrosity - right down to the construction companies benefiting from it, and the urban city dominating the decisions of the countryside - will continue as well.
\nThese structures feel poorly integrated into their surroundings.\u00a0 They could have put earthen embankments behind them, or put walking paths on top of them.
\nAnd if they are reinforced concrete instead of regular concrete, they won\u2019t last more than a five decades or so before breaking apart.
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Worth pointing out that \u201cgratuitous, overengineered concrete construction along the rural coast\u201d \u2013 seawalls, tetrapods, those mountainside roads familiar from anime (where America might just use netting or fences to restrain falling rocks) \u2013 is the classic Japanese pork-barrel/stimulus spending project. Was an important part of Japan\u2019s Cold War political structure, with the ruling pan-establishmentarian LDP spending to shore up support in rotten rural districts to counter Communist strength in the cities.