What If There Was a Flood in the Sahara Desert?

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. Located in North Africa, its area is a whopping 3.5 million square miles, which is almost the size of the whole United States! It's a scorching hot place where very few lifeforms can survive. What few people know, however, is that it hasn’t always been like that. Every 41,000 years, the Sahara turns into a savannah grassland thanks to the movement of the Earth’s axis. Its next change of landscape is going to happen 15,000 years from now. But there is an idea that can make this process not just faster but different altogether. It’s called the Sahara Sea project…
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TIMESTAMPS:
What the Sahara Sea project is 1:37
What Jules Verne wrote about that 2:13
Why the French professor’s idea was rejected 3:47
Operation Plowshare 5:00
New plans to develop the Sahara Sea project 5:43
What this project might lead to 6:48
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SUMMARY:
- The first concept appeared in 1877 when Scottish entrepreneur Donald Mackenzie proposed to turn the El Djouf basin of the Sahara Desert into an inland sea.
- The following year, two French activists, Francois Elie Roudaire and Ferdinand de Lesseps, suggested a similar idea for the Chott el Fejej, another basin in the desert.
- It’s interesting that even Jules Verne was fascinated by the idea of creating a sea inside the world’s greatest desert. He wrote two adventure novels in 1877 and 1905 that dwelled on the matter and referred directly to Roudaire and de Lesseps’s plans.
- The first of the attempts to return to this issue was made in 1910 by French professor Edmund Etchegoyen. He was sure that an inland sea inside the Sahara would improve the climate in Europe.
- The Sahara Sea project’s second comeback was called on by members of Operation Plowshare. They proposed to blow up several explosives in the middle of the desert to create a basin that would then fill with water.
- There have been several initiatives in the 21st century, but the most promising one is called “The Sea in the Desert”. Its idea is to flood Chott El Jerid, one of the shallow salt lakes in southern Tunisia.
- Tunisia has a really high unemployment rate, and such a gigantic project would make the country’s economy skyrocket by providing jobs for approximately 60,000 people.
- The humid climate around the artificial sea would allow locals to farm the lands all year long, making a huge impact on the economy of the country.
- The Sea in the Desert project suggests there will be alternative energy generators installed after the main job is done.
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