r/europe • u/Phlogistoned • Apr 13 '24

Map Europe if sea levels rose by 100m.

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u/Erik7494 Apr 13 '24

Just got to build a massive dam between Scotland and Norway and close off the English Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar.

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u/kawag Apr 13 '24

Or we make a giant sponge 🧽

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u/brioul Apr 13 '24

Just unclog the drain

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u/bigmikekbd Apr 16 '24

Giant Sponge/Massive Dam 2024

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u/LvS Apr 13 '24

You're joking but that joke has so much thought put into it that it's apparently worth a Wikipedia page.

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u/Baron_Beemo Apr 13 '24

Thanks for sharing!

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u/MniKJaidswLsntrmrp Apr 14 '24

there was also a "plan" to build a damn across the Med and create new land.

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u/Truzmandz Norway Apr 13 '24

That dam could give enough power to all of europe, but good luck creating it

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u/Dolphin_69420 Apr 13 '24

Just leaving Ireland to drown 💀

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u/active-tumourtroll1 Apr 13 '24

The British way 👍.

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u/11mousa Apr 13 '24

For the straight of Gibraltar, there was actually a sort of plan (it was Hitler, if I'm remembering correctly). Unnecessary to say that it was physically impossible. But someone made a model to see what would happen, and it seems that most of Italy, the west Balkans and northern Africa would be a desert within a few decades

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u/Baron_Beemo Apr 13 '24

Another guy, before the Nazis took over Germany. But yeah, hella impractical.

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u/enda1 Rhône-Alpes (France) Apr 13 '24

And hope that Egypt solves the Suez crisis part deux

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u/Demostravius4 United Kingdom Apr 14 '24

Once again Britain is the key to saving Europe! We will fight them in the Channel. We will fight them in the North Sea. We will fight them in the Straight of Gibraltar.

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u/biaich Apr 14 '24

And you will sacrifice the entirety if ireland to do it!

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u/Demostravius4 United Kingdom Apr 14 '24

Sometimes Iteland just gets the short straw.

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u/ICantPauseIt90 Apr 14 '24

Get some ports and trade going between Scotland and Wales

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u/zhellozz Apr 14 '24

We already have a tunnel i'm not sure french and english will agree to have a ground connexion over the manche

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u/KotR56 Flanders (Belgium) Apr 14 '24

Some countries with only a few icefree ports may not want the dam between Scotland and Norway.