Half-immortal civilization

Chapter 237 Disaster

The bell rang quietly in 2049, but the eyes of the world were on Africa, North Africa to be exact!
With the development of human beings, in most countries, the population is increasing, and the growth is unlimited.The carrying capacity of the earth is 70 billion people, but now the world has exceeded this number.In fact, the limit of the healthy carrying capacity of the earth is only 40 billion!
In fact, only China is maintaining a healthy population growth. Of course, the population of 12 billion is still a bit huge.But compared to India, a country that is only one-third of China's land area but has a population of nearly 13 billion, China is already extremely healthy.

But in today's society, the development of a country relies heavily on population, so some countries have to increase their population a lot, such as Japan and South Korea.

In order to feed so many people on the earth, the earth is already overwhelmed, environmental problems are becoming increasingly severe, and marine resources have been exhausted. In order to fish, the fishing nets have to be dived to a depth of 1.5 kilometers to 2 kilometers.

The environment is getting worse and worse, and correspondingly, there are many complications.Today, the drought in northern Africa in 2048 was already one of the areas with the least rainfall on the earth, and now there is no precipitation. The few remaining wild grasslands and forests have begun to wither, but what attracts the most attention now is, It's food!
Because of the precipitation and the fact that Africa is warm all year round, strictly speaking, the food planting time in Africa follows the rain, not the temperature.In recent years, Sudan, a somewhat backward republic, has begun to embark on a road of Arab prosperity due to the exploitation of oil resources, exchanging crude oil for wealth.As a result, the country became richer, and of course, the birth rate and survival rate increased greatly.

For this reason, Sudan has to grow more food to feed its own people. As for imported food?Don't be funny, the United States and Brazil, once the largest food exporting countries, now have to feed a lot of food to feed their own people, especially today's artificially synthesized chemical fuels require a lot of food and food straw.

In fact, in 2048, only 3000 million tons of grain will be exported, which is far less than the average grain output of 1.5 million tons in previous years.Such changes have directly led to the European food crisis and the world food prices have been rising steadily, so that some places have begun to barter, because the currency has depreciated too much, and some countries and regions have begun to distrust currency.

Under such circumstances, Huaxia, which has the largest grain output in the world, did not take the opportunity to make a fortune, but hoarded it to cope with future crises.As a result, China cut off its supply to Russia, causing Russia to become anxious.

Unknowingly, the food crisis has become the first choice of today's global crisis.

However, Southeast Asia and some American and African countries located in the hot zone have made a fortune, and the food crisis in Europe has caused panic.But even so, because of the abundance of food in these places, the population increased even more, and the output of food decreased sharply every year.

At the same time, the small European region has a population of 20 billion, and the entire European area is only more than 1000 million square kilometers. However, with the rising sea level, a large number of lowland environments have been submerged. The former Venice has become a Haixia sightseeing center... …In fact, because of the generally low terrain in Europe, the area of ​​Europe today is only a little over 950 million square meters.

Such a dense population makes it difficult for Europe to support, and almost all of the large amount of food and meat has to be exported.

Under such an international environment, some people in North Africa have a wild idea because of the warmth of the place: Can fresh water, such as the Nile River water, or desalinated sea water be used to irrigate wasteland to increase production?It seems that in such a hot environment, it is completely possible to do three or even four crops a year.With today's advanced food technology, it is completely possible.

It was under such considerations that the Sudanese Republic began to draw water from the Nile River to irrigate the land.

However, Sudan's behavior annoyed Egypt.The Nile River, the mother river of Egypt, the longest river that runs through two-thirds of Africa, has been cut into large and small sections by large and small dams.But at the very least, everyone knows that a large amount of water cannot be used to ensure the basic ecology.

However, today's Sudanese Republic already has a population of 2 million!This is Sudan, a dry area!To feed such a large population, food is an astronomical figure.The geographical location of the Republic of Sudan determines that they don't have much arable land, and they are all barren land as far as they can see.

Under such circumstances, seeing the increasingly fierce competition in the space age, the Republic of Sudan, after a month-long discussion, decided to cut off the Nile River!

Draw water from the Nile, irrigate the wasteland, and grow food!

Because, if this plan is completed, it will add almost 5000 million hectares of land to the Republic of Sudan, enough to feed the existing population!Especially the location of Sudan, which is near the equator, has a minimum temperature of 17 degrees throughout the year, but with the rise in global temperatures, the minimum temperature is already 20 degrees today!Cooking all year round is not a problem!
In particular, in recent years, Egypt has hardly developed. Guarding a desert, its development potential has been exhausted. The survival of [-] million people has dragged down Egypt, a country that was once a little prosperous.

Relatively speaking, in recent years, due to the development of mineral resources and the successful exploration of oil resources, Sudan has received a large amount of development funds, and the country's armed forces have been greatly utilized.That is to say, under such circumstances, coupled with the severe drought in Africa this year, Sudan did not obtain international understanding, did not obtain the consent of Egypt, and impressively ordered: cut off the Nile River!

The news spread, the whole world was shaken, and an international river was cut off privately, the impact was extremely bad. = I thought that Egypt in the lower reaches of the Nile River was completely fed by this river!Once the Nile River is cut off, Egypt can directly declare: the country is bankrupt!
After the Nile River entered the northern part of the Sudanese Republic, no tributaries flowed in, and it flowed through the Gobi Desert entirely by its own water volume, nourishing the huge Egypt.

Of course, Egypt refuses to accept it. You are not trying to cut off people's wealth, but to completely exterminate a country and nation!

However, this year, Sudan has been starving like crazy. The price of food in the world has soared all the way, and the currency is depreciating at an unprecedented rate. reserve Huaxia currency, which currency is as strong as Huaxia currency in the world today!), Under this double attack, the Sudanese Republic, which has just become rich, has to spend all its money to buy food...

Such a situation has made the Republic of Sudan learn from the painful experience and establish its own food base, no matter how expensive it is!

With today's technology, it is entirely possible to cut the Nile River in the Republic of Sudan into 100 sections and distribute and irrigate 5000 million hectares of land.That is, Egypt...

On January 2049, 1, Egypt urgently issued a statement: It will spare no effort to defend national security.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like