The Bering Strait, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Darian Gap, there’s probably about a dozen possible megaprojects that I could name that have been proposed but not built. The question is, should they be built? Is having the world connected worth the consequences of doing so?
Massive megaprojects are cool and neat in a testament to man’s will kind of way, but also atrocious for environmental impact I have to imagine. Let’s knock ‘em out as they come up and sufficient need presents itself. Doing shit because it’s cool at the nation-state level does not, imo, have a great track record
Destroying a little bit of jungle to build infrastructure for migrants seems like an issue where human need outweighs environmental concerns.
Use boats, only legal stupidities stop people from offering ferry rides to the migrants.
If someone is gonna do some very expensive project, probably shitting over the indiginous people living there, why not rather stop all the reasons people end up crossing to it. At least change the part of considering migrants subhumans with no rights and everyone preying on them.
Doing such mega project because migrants is nonsensical.
"Lets burn a forest to make the orphan crushing machine less grisly"
mid bit, 5/10
I'd definitely :soypoint-1: :soypoint-2: for the sheer human flex on display, but they're probably super bad for the oceans or something
I experience a visceral response and immediately jump to Larouche guys talking about land bridges or whatever. What would maintenance and upkeep on something like that even look like
I want them to build the iranrood
Edit because of projection distortions it looks close but its abot 1500 km through mountains for comparision going from marseille to gandask is 1200km or so.
The world is already connected and has been connected for hundreds of years at this point. Making those connections into permanent physical infrastructure is likely not worth it, but underground trains are probably about as good as you're going to get.
I've thought about the implications of a physical tunnel and/or bridge connecting Japan to Korea or Russia. That would be interesting to see but probably pointless.
so so so so cool
but maybe too big and expensive to be practical
Seems like a good way to drown a lot of people whenever the continental plates shift.
the 20th century Marxist-Leninist within me wants to wrestle with nature, then subdue and dominate it to serve human design (specifically the construction of international communism) :top-use-words: :chad-stalin:
the 21st century Ecosocialist within me realizes that will probably not be a good idea and we're supposed to live in harmony with nature and not brutally subjugate it for economic benefit :bottom-speak: :anarcho-bottom:
