After having a little patience to digest the stuffy academic language I realized something: This is one of the craziest articles I have ever read. It is like

After having a little patience to digest the stuffy academic language I realized something: This is one of the craziest articles I have ever read. It is like the premise of a sci-fi novel where future states slowly creep along by dredging and filling in land. But it's actually really happening at a scale beyond novelties like Dubai and non-contentious (at least internationally) expansions like Battery Park City. The fact that sand-smuggling is a thing...