Atlantropa

Would you sacrifice the aesthetic mediterranean coast for more farming ground?

Atlantropa would just result in a massive, salty, unfertile wasteland.

Terraform it then.

Thank G-D it didn't happen. Imagine more Shitalians living in Europe.

It could be dessalinized.

Wouldn't farmland that we already have it's yields harmed by the climate changes that moving the shoreline would cause?

How would we terraform hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land?

There are expensive methods to control for soil salinity.

But you could also just seed the salty land with salt resistant weeds and reeds to feed grazing animals. Imagine the "adriatic plains" covered in happy little sheep and goats.

>V*nice survives
NO

tfw no atlantropa
>unlimited energy from the dams
>huge amount of jobs
>food production through the roof
>railways from london to cape town
>euro rule over africa solidified

>canal to Venice
For what reason

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No, its too aesthetic. Sacrifice the Caspian if you want farmland so bad

What are some of the environmental impacts of this?

no thx

It would be a desert and converting it to fertile land would be too expensive. Might aswell use the Sahara then.

>food production from the roof

Good luck farming in salt deserts.

*through

tfw venice dies
YES YES YES YES YES YES

the Mediterranean doesn't drain into the atlantic

>Food production increased by an area about the size of spain (assuming mediterranean rainfall stays the same, which, hint, it won't)
>Railways from one shithole to another
>African immigration into europe solidified

Which is why the mediterranean would be below the atlantic, as you would realize had you read the thread before posting.

Literally the destruction of Europe

nty desu senpai

It wouldn't even be farmable considering it would be covered in salt. Also, the water that would evaporate (The Mediterranean is naturally evaporative) would flood coastal cities around the world. It would be an environmental disaster on a scale that has never been seen in human history. It would be like the Aral Sea catastrophe but with a MUCH bigger sea.

>Africa connected to Europe
No.

You should tell that to the people of the *former* Aral Sea

> virgin atlantropa
> CHAD SEA

If the extensive schemes for the drainage of North Sea are carried out according to the plan illustrated above, which was conceived by a group of eminent English scientists, 100,000 square miles will be added to the overcrowded continents of Europe. The reclaimed land will be walled in with enormous dykes, similar to the Netherland dykes, to protect it from the sea, and the various rivers flowing into the North Sea will have their courses diverted to different outlets by means of canals.

This has got to be the stupidest idea I've ever seen in my life.

If you guys wanted a true terraforming project that wouldn't ruin one of the most known seas in the world, then go to the Sahara. Make it green again like it was thousands of years ago.

>America destroys the dam across the Straits of Gibraltar with a nuclear torpedo a the start of WWIII
>millions of Reich citizens drown
This is just one of the reasons why Atlantropa was a terrible idea.

How could that possibly exist?

There's probably some very rich, very old family politics that would result in the annihilation of three generations of your family if you didn't take their interests into consideration.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

You act as if there aren't ways to desalinate them

wouldn't the russians be very antagonist of this idea?
they'd probably have canals; but then again, 3 or 4 more canals worth of cost for sea freighters. Also, oil tankers would end up diverting trough the cape of good hope to go to north america. Anyways, oil prices would be a mess. And shipping logistics would also be all kinds of weird for a long while.

>assuming the incredibly militaristic state of Germany wouldn’t have a fleet twice as great as Britain’s at all times and would also have this specific dam be the most well fortified and defended part of the world

Can any Veeky Forumsfags say how deep the salt would be?

what happens to all the port cities that are now inland?

>unlimited energy from the dams
until we discover a room temperature superconductor, no

too much of the energy would be lost to resistance when you transported it to the distant cities

please delete this monstrosity and never post again

it was come up with by a g*rman, what do you expect

that's a shitty show and shitty alt history

Chad's dad is rich, Chad gets whatever he wants.

Haven't the Dutch made salt tolerant potatos a few years ago?