Kind of a lesser known 20th century moonshot: Atlantropa, the plan to dam off the Mediterranean to create new European land. Insane but they should have done it.

Kind of a lesser known 20th century moonshot: Atlantropa, the plan to dam off the Mediterranean to create new European land. Insane but they should have done it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa?wprov=sfti1#

This is cool. Although I'm not understanding how this was directly related to the Mediterranean plan. Just an additional idea?

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I need to study the geography, but vaguely they must have had some provision to redirect water on the other side of the dam toward new tributaries!

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I think it would have been negligible, from what I’ve seen

I wonder how this would have affected global sea levels?

Also a truly fascinating example of Europeanism, that a group of nations, not even a state, could consider having such a big impact on communities (not to mention the colonial dynamics)

Reber Plan is such a missed opportunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reber_Plan

wow, wild

hadn't heard about it. very cool lock concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

Imagine the effects of this on food culture in Mediterranean.