Artificial islands and resorts, the atoll-saving plan that divides the Maldives

How to save the Neverland. Or rather: that it disappears. After having experimented since 2010 with the construction of artificial platforms and having announced, a year ago, the utopian project of a “Floating City”, the first floating city in the world (resistant to bad weather because it was built with biorock, a material covered with limestone extremely light), the government of those Maldives made by climate change one of the most endangered places on Earth, launches a new, controversial plan to save Addu City, in the southernmost of its atolls.