Random fun fact: if you have played PokΓ©mon Emerald you might be familiar with the Team Magma-Team Aqua conflict about terraforming/oceanforming? the Hoenn region
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What you might NOT know is that this conflict has real life ties: it is, in fact, modeled after the debate around the Isahaya bay reclamation project, to this day one of the most controversial reclamation projects in Japan
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A big part of this debate revolved around increasing environmental concerns especially by the local fishermen, who would lose a big chunk of their area of operation in the terraforming process
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Key_Factors_in_Handling_Conflicts_in_the_Isahaya_Bay_Land_Reclamation.pdf
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Here's a paper if you want a more detailed breakdown of the debate
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