The Proposal to Dam the Mediterranean Sea

There is a proposal to dam the Mediterranean Sea and drain it out, uniting Europe and Africa into a new supercontinent called Atlantropa. The project would involve massive dams at the Strait of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles Strait and between Sicily and Tunisia, lowering the water level 100 and 200 meters, opening up 576,000 square kilometers of new land for settlement and agriculture. Unfortunately though, this proposal would strand all of the Mediterranean’s coastal cities inland, destroy marine habitats, could be ruined with one nuke, and all the new exposed land would be salt flats. To learn more, watch the full video we just released on the Futurology YouTube channel.

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[SewerRatsarepeopletoo]

A 'New' Proposal... from the 1920's....

[emizerri]

A proposal by who, mad men? No one in the Mediterranean is willingly landlocking themselves lmao

[Mr.Paticles]

Whoever proposed this doesn't know a single thing about anything.

[jason_pachuau]

Not one single soul : "lets drain the Mediterranean sea"..
This video :

[harisdevedzic]

That must be the dumbest proposal that I've heard in my life ever

[Dr.Phoenix]

Another episode of : Just because you can doesn't always mean you should

[backerhamada]

Important to think about water displacement here. This would drastically bring up water levels over the globe. Flooding major coastal cities.

[keithm]

Well the big problem there is how can you make it agricultural land considering that all of the soil or muck is completely full of salt.

[benvad]

You should increase the size of the Mediterranean and push Africa further away.

[xdmztryvsvedine]

The ancestors of the Greece and Italy would facepalm if they heard this plan.

[tickticktickBOOOOM]

Native European population: "We will see this entire planet bathed in nuclear fire before this happens."

[paulburger]

I live in Africa. You don’t want to make it easier for Africans to get to Europe.

[mihaiszilagyi]

Someone missed basic geography lessons. There are major rivers which flow into the Mediterranean Sea, just naming the Nile as example. It would require such an effort that it would be easier to build a colony on Mars. Who cane up with this idea? A Bond villain?

[jonathanburnett]

repeat after me (clears throat) IF IT AINT BROKEN DONT FIX IT.😊

[jamie]

Great for Africa, a nightmare for Europe 🇪🇺 I feel most Europeans wish the Mediterranean would be wider.

[juststeve]

Tno players: hey I seen this before it’s a classic!

[SCGMLB]

It would also destroy the Suez Canal as a way to travel from western Europe to the Indian Ocean. Currently 30% of the world's container traffic goes through the Suez Canal.

[erickrobertson]

Imagine all the archeological finds that will be made.

[sciencenculture]

I'm Tunisian and I assure you that we like our lake as it is.

[sub-zero_]

👳🏿: «I see this as an absolute win!»
👱🏼‍♂️: «what have I done?!»