We should totally do this as a silly little prank on the Italians
We should totally do this as a silly little prank on the Italians
What are your thoughts on Atlantropa? I haven't really thought about the implications or consequences, I just think we should do it because it would be cool as fuck
venice still connected to the sea by a canal 100s of km long is a good bit
We should make it so that they still have regular floods
This would destroy coastal ecosystems, fishing villages, and a lot of the tourism economy.
But it would also make Gaza bigger so who's to say.
Looks like there would be a massive power struggle between Greece and Turkey for control of that new archipelago, NATO might collapse in on itself as 2 members go to war. Would be sick.
Just reading the Wikipedia article it seems like the idea is for Europe to unite to colonize Africa and this massive engineering project is just a part of that goal, so I don't like it.
Everyone would die from this and the toxic dust blowing from the dried up salt flats that used to be the Mediterranean while also destroying a massive amount of the marine and terrestrial ecosystems of Europe, Africa, The Middle East and Asia.
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I love it. Let's turn europe into northern sahara
this but unironically
that's a deeply stupid and irresponsible plan
takes more money than ww2 and benefits no-body. it's brilliant
I'm sure it will cause some form of ecological catastrophe as well although I don't know how exactly how but I do know that a hard engineering project of that scale is bound to fuck something up
What are the ecological impacts of blocking the migration of sea animals?
ecological impacts? there's not gonna be an ecology, silly
We've towed the ecology out of the environment.
It's economically logical if that's what you're asking
Wait, that's not how canals work, the water can't flow up a canal from 200m below.
Two rivers flow into the Venice lagoon, the Sile and the Brenta. So as long as you balanced the outflow through the canal, the lagoon wouldn't dry up, but it would turn into freshwater and totally change the largest wetland ecosystem in the Mediterranean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Lagoon
You'd still need to go through 200m of locks to get from the port of Venice to the Atlantic. For reference, the locks at the Three Gorges Dam have an elevation change of 113m. Edit: actually the canal might have a gentle enough slope that you wouldn't need that many locks, it would basically be an artificial river.
This is like trying to reverse the zanclean flood so you can do more grandiose neocolonialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
One thing that could be cool I guess is that the land reclamation could expose sites of archeological interest that teach us more about the early hominids that lived in that period
It'll probably be an unmitigated ecological disaster but, on the other hand, there's a Berlin-Capetown railway so... Critical support?
Of course there's a Tom Scott video about it: https://youtu.be/TEdsQmjLMKs?si=9GxfhYhYQMxPPISI
Also, part of this plan was to create huge artificial lakes in Africa: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F1qgx9fzz0uvz.png
Lake Mega-Chad shall rise again.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That's just a vile Italiano plot to yet again deny the sea access to Austria-Hungary and to finally stop seeing Marseille from their boats.
Bring back Doggerland
We should turn Mediterranean sea and Arctic ocean into one
If you drop seal level by 200 meters, you're gonna have to dig the suez 200 meters deeper.
Not that anyone is going to be shipping on a salinifying endorheic basin.
interesting: Mediterranean winds blow north, but Black Sea winds blow South and East
