SteeleRedux,
What's your view on building settlements on sandbanks ?

individual,

Charles Neil who lives in Dubai writes:

"Sand covers the surface of Dubai. For single story/low
rise buildings they can lay a concrete slab that sits on
the sand that provides a very stable platform."

"For tall buildings they are built on piles which can be
drilled in to bed rock which lies at varying depths below
the surface. These piles are close together and form a
type of mattress for the base of the building to sit on."

Foxy,
A desert is vastly different to a mudbank surrounded by water upon which there is a village not being held up by pylons driven into bedrock ! Also, Dubai is a functioning patriotic society creating its own revenue.

Dear Josephus,

Sigh.

Leaving aside you ignoring the accelerating Fort Denison sealevel rise I clearly illustrated perhaps you need to stop being so flippant with your numbers.

0.73mm times a hundred years is not .73 of a metre but rather 73mm or one tenth of that.

individual,

You did ask for a view of building settlements on
sandbanks.

Just note what Hasbeen said;
Jetties he built around the Islands donkey's ago are now not long enough.
Coincides with Auckland Uni's findings.