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Nick Jenny's avatar

Great article. I love these kind of pie-in-the-sky, but carefully worked out schemes.

I suppose all those people flooded out in central Africa could have been put to work in the new cotton fields of the Sahara.

Miguel García Álvarez's avatar

I'm afraid that would have been a really probable outcome for them :/

James F. Lavin's avatar

Never heard of him. Thank you. Wild stuff makes China mega canal projects look like kindergarten. But then they get built.

Miguel García Álvarez's avatar

Yeap - That's the main difference, I guess. There are way too many examples of people that dreamt big. The difficult part was always to make those dreams come true, which is what the Chinese are achieving lately.

SpeedWeasel's avatar

Fascinating! What a terrible idea. The EU is overrun with swarthy migrants as it is. Imagine the cultural enrichment if a million africans could just hop on a bus to get to Milan.