Building new land will both help humanity to achieve equilibrium, and progress beyond it. The most obvious purpose of creating new land is to provide more space for plant and animal life to thrive. This being said, there are a few different factors in how and reasons why land shall be built.
One reason is control of weather patterns. Building land with this objective can provide a lot of benefit to humanity and stability to living conditions on Earth. Mountain ranges and ocean currents affect the weather, sometimes to our detriment. The Earth’s troposphere could become more stable if the stone and dirt which comprises these mountains was removed from the mountains, and then used to build new land, both vertically and horizontally.
To build new land horizontally, scatter megalithic pyramids across the landscape. The relative uniformity and much smaller size of these pyramids, when compared to mountains, will generally stabilize wind patterns. The idea is to make the surface of the Earth resemble a golf ball, as opposed to maintaining the current extremes of peaks, valleys, and flatlands. The Great Plains of the United States would not be so plagued by windstorms, if the neighboring Rocky Mountains were dismantled and re-built into pyramids scattered across the plains (and the rest of the country).
To build new land horizontally, extend coastlines, especially the Pacific Coast of North America. Extension of the coastline should be done in a specific manner. Rather than build out the entire coastline uniformly, numerous peninsulas should be built. This will set up the landscape so that numerous ocean tributaries flow across the new land. One benefit of these tributaries is that humans will be able to manage the fish populations in the tributaries as they see fit, since these waterways will be relatively easy to access. There will be no more reason to overfish the oceans.
Another reason to build land, is to do so in tandem with waste disposal. This is the new and revolutionary “landfill…” This “landfill” may be the answer to the problem of toxic mining tailings, which contain arsenic and lead. These tailings are a severe problem in places such as Tarr Creek, OK, which is a government superfund site and probably will be for a long time. These tailings could be cocooned deep within a stable stone structure which is unlikely to be disturbed. It would be ideal to use “junk” stone for this purpose, and save the best stones for precise construction of pyramids instead. At the same time, though, it must be ensured that the stones used to permanently encase tailings will be sufficient for the task. Anyway, the point here is that this idea is actually not “new and revolutionary”: instead, this is an example of biomimicry. Encasing tailings in stone is modeled on the same way the Earth is already structured. Essentially, all that is being done here is putting the tailings back into the Earth—however, those tailings will be placed into newly re-arranged Earth, instead of being placed into a hole dug in the ground (i.e. a landfill…).
Fertilizer production is also strongly related to the creation of new land. Ideally, as much fertilizer (in the form of worm castings) as possible should be generated and spread across the Earth, with the result of increasing topsoil levels.