Homo sapiens

Suez Canal.

To be precise, it is the first Suez Canal, because there are currently two Suez Canals.

The Second Suez Canal is the one dug independently by the Homo sapiens company, while the First Suez Canal is the old canal.

Recently, the First Suez Canal has stopped shipping services. There are many reasons for stopping shipping services.

The relationship between Homo sapiens and the free world is not good. In order to avoid the Suez Canal controlled by Homo sapiens, the free world is trying to find ways to bypass the Suez Canal.

For example, investing in the construction of the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, the construction of overland oil and gas pipelines in West Asia, the construction of the Eurasian railway, or the adoption of the Arctic route and the North Pacific route.

After various plans, the shipping volume of the Suez Canal dropped rapidly, leaving only the Homo sapiens company and some edge world ships to pass through the Suez Canal.

The First Suez Canal, which has aging facilities and relatively low standards, does not have many ships passing through it now. It is only used as a supplement and backup channel for the Second Suez Canal.

After all, the channel depth of the First Suez Canal is only 22.5 meters, and the width is not enough. It takes 14 to 16 hours to navigate the channel of more than 100 kilometers.

The second Suez Canal newly built by Homo sapiens has a single-lane channel width of 860 to 900 meters and an average depth of 35 meters, which is enough to navigate giant ships of 500,000 tons.

More importantly, the navigation time only takes 7 to 8 hours.

Therefore, with the putting into use of the Second Suez Canal, the First Suez Canal was naturally left out in the cold.

But this is not the main reason why the first Suez Canal was decommissioned recently.

The main reason why Homo sapiens decommissioned the First Suez Canal was due to falling sea levels.

As the ice caps in Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean gradually expand, and plateau and mountain glaciers around the world begin to develop again, more and more water resources are fixed in the ice and ice caps.

This caused sea levels to begin to fall. According to current data, sea levels will drop by about 12 centimeters every month on average.

At this time, global sea level has dropped by about 1.8 meters cumulatively.

If the global cooling trend cannot be reversed, global sea levels will drop by an average of 1.4 to 1.5 meters per year in the future until the peak of the ice age is reached.

According to past geological history data, under normal circumstances, the global sea level at the peak of the ice age would be about 90 to 100 meters lower than the sea level in 2020.

Of course, this is a general situation. If certain extreme conditions are encountered, the sea level may drop by 200 meters.

According to this situation, we have just entered the Ice Age, and it is estimated that it will take about 50 years to reach the peak of the Ice Age.

Moreover, the development of ice caps and glaciers during the glacial period has a characteristic, that is, it is relatively rapid in the early stages and will become slower and slower in the later stages.

Conservative estimates suggest that it may take about 100 years for this ice age to reach its peak.

Therefore, the depth of the First Suez Canal at this time is only 20.7 meters, and it is still declining. This depth is not conducive to navigation.

In addition, there were not many transport ships that originally used this canal, so the company directly decommissioned the First Suez Canal and upgraded the old canal with a stroke of a pen.

In fact, this is also a problem that major waterways around the world will face in the future, especially those with average water depths less than 120 meters. As the world cools, sea levels will gradually decrease, making it difficult to use these waterways.

For example, in the Black Sea Strait nominally controlled by the Ottomans, a large part of the channel depth in this strait is less than 120 meters.

Even the two Central American canals that use ship locks must find ways to readjust their waterways, or even add a few more ship locks, before they can be barely navigable.

The Strait of Malacca and the Kra Canal will also encounter this problem.

Fortunately, the canal excavation technology of Homo sapiens is very powerful and can continue to deepen the canal as the sea level drops to ensure the normal navigation of the canal.

This is also the reason why the free world has given up digging the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, because now that it has been dug, it is uncertain whether the sea level will continue to drop in the future and whether navigation will be stable.

In addition, the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal has another fatal weakness, which is another outlet of the Red Sea-the Strait of Main.

The depth of part of the Strait of Main is also less than 120 meters, which means that the Red Sea will become a closed saltwater lake in the future.

Even if the free world desperately deepens the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea canal and waits until the Strait of Main becomes land, there will still be no way to pass through the Red Sea.

As for whether Homo sapiens will dig the Main Canal.

The answer is of course yes.

But the Main Canal dug by the Sapiens Company is not unnavigable by ships in the free world.

Therefore, the free world has to re-evaluate the strategic value of the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal. If it has this spare time, it might as well invest in the expansion of the Eurasian Railway.

Now the free world really needs to upgrade and transform the Eurasian Railway and expand the cargo transportation volume of the Eurasian Railway.

After all, the Arctic route that Lucia had high hopes for was now also abandoned, and the Arctic Ocean's freezing period was getting longer and longer.

According to the current trend, the Bering Strait can be completely covered by ice caps. After becoming a semi-permanent ice cap, the Arctic route will directly lose the possibility of navigation.

With no other option, the four major forces had to find ways to use railways and highways as alternatives.

But as September passed quietly.

The situation around the world is becoming clearer.

The European Union and Lucia, which were tortured by extreme weather and suffered severe reductions in agricultural production, entered the cold winter early.

Especially in the northern part of Northern Europe, it is covered with ice and snow as early as the end of August. From October to October, it snows heavily in the entire Baltic Sea region.

The Arctic ice caps are expanding southward from northern northern Europe little by little, although for a while, many of the ice caps will not become semi-permanent, just seasonal ice caps.

But the problem is that this year's North Atlantic Warm Current shows no signs of returning to normal. Without the warm water vapor of the North Atlantic Warm Current, the temperate maritime climate in Western Europe has turned into a temperate continental climate, and even some areas with relatively high latitudes have turned into frigid zones. climate.

Berlin.

The first snowstorm of autumn covered the whole city with a layer of snow.

However, this scenery has a hint of cruelty.

Berlin has quickly entered winter mode, and many people have to turn on the heating in advance.

America's half-sold, half-given genetically modified corn is made into feed, alcohol, and fructose syrup, which are supplied to farmers and agricultural companies.

Coupled with the low-priced natural gas purchased from Lucia, the production costs of many Europa companies have been barely reduced.

There are also cheap light industrial products from Seris arriving via the Eurasian Railway, which also alleviates the problem of insufficient supply in the local market.

The Europa Community also reluctantly increased subsidies for some products.

This barely suppressed the spread of the bankruptcy wave and once again stabilized internal prices.

However, the early cooling of the northern hemisphere still makes the Europa Community and Lucia very troublesome.

In order to deal with frequent extreme weather and global cooling issues, major forces have been holding frequent small meetings recently.

Human beings are still too fragile in the face of the power of nature.

Except for the Homo sapiens companies entrenched in the equatorial region, other forces are feeling great pressure.

The Homo sapiens company is taking advantage of this God-given opportunity to vigorously attract natural people, and at the same time, it is also rapidly building a circum-equator stratospheric railway.

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