{"id":1965,"date":"2023-09-08T17:54:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/il-progetto-atlantropa-la-folle-chiusura-del-mediterraneo\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:04:22","slug":"atlantropa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/atlantropa\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantropa: the crazy blockage of the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/atlantropa\/#atlantropa_a_%e2%80%9ccontrolled%e2%80%9d_drying\" >Atlantropa: a &#8220;controlled&#8221; drying<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/atlantropa\/#a_project_with_global_consequences\" >A project with global consequences<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>How many continents are there? Nowadays we would answer, without any hesitation, 7. But there was a time, almost a hundred years ago, when this answer could have changed drastically, artificially reducing them to 5, uniting Europe and Africa in <strong>Atlantropa: <\/strong>a single , immense continent. The idea came from the German architect Herman S\u00f6rgel: using a system of dams, he hypothesized the closure of the Mediterranean Sea, artificially causing it to dry up and effectively uniting Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But the utopian optimism, caused also by the historical period during which this project was hypothesized, soon ran out, especially when <strong>the consequences<\/strong> that such a monumental architectural work could have caused were understood, not only on the countries involved, but throughout the globe.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"atlantropa_a_%e2%80%9ccontrolled%e2%80%9d_drying\"><\/span>Atlantropa: a &#8220;controlled&#8221; drying<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When the project was planned in 1927, it was not the first time that talk of a drying up of the Mediterranean Sea had been heard. It happened, in fact, millions of years earlier, during the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/mediterranean-dried-up\/\">Messinian salinity crisis<\/a><\/strong>. Even then, the great sea dried up, for reasons that scientists still try to discover today: almost certainly, it was a tectonic movement, or a glaciation. This event endend in a gigantic and catastrophic flood, which brought the <em>Mare Nostrum<\/em> back to its previous levels, saving it from becoming an immense expanse of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Herman S\u00f6rgel, also thanks to the great positivism that characterized the early years of the 20th century, thought of <strong>emulating this natural cataclysm<\/strong> with his project, but in a more controlled way. For this reason, he reasoned about a system of dams, the largest of which would be built on the Strait of Gibraltar, blocking the only connection between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean and, in fact, creating a sort of artificial connection between Africa and Europe, making them a single continent.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, further dams would have been created in other important points of the Mediterranean: for example, <strong>between Sicily and Tunisia<\/strong>, or even between the Suez Canal and the Dardanelles Strait. By controlling the drying of the sea, caused by its known salinity, a huge area would be freed up, which would be used for the construction of farms and agricultural centres.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that: the dam system would have allowed the construction of numerous <strong>hydroelectric power plants<\/strong>. Furthermore, this project would have made it possible to irrigate the Sahara desert, creating an artificial lake thanks to a specially built dam on the Congo river, to be joined with Lake Chad and subsequently with the Mediterranean itself, bringing the water through the area of desert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1902\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1902 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Atlantropa-1024x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Atlantropa-1024x435.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Atlantropa-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Atlantropa-768x326.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Atlantropa-1536x652.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Atlantropa-2048x869.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Atlantropa-750x318.jpg 750w, https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Atlantropa-1140x484.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How the Mediterranean could have changed with the Atlantropa project. Credits: Ittiz via Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"a_project_with_global_consequences\"><\/span>A project with global consequences<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Despite the grandiose premises, Atlantropa was a project that never saw the light. The first to reject it, a few years after its conception, was <strong>Adolf Hitler himself<\/strong>: although one of the aims of the project was the expansion of the territories belonging to the Reich, the necessary collaboration between nations posed itself as an insurmountable obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>Si susseguirono<strong> una serie di rifiuti<\/strong>, sia da parte dell&#8217;Italia fascista che persino dall&#8217;America: fu impedito a S\u00f6rgel di presentare il proprio progetto oltreoceano. Anni dopo la morte dell&#8217;architetto, si continua a discutere di tale, imponente opera architettonica: sarebbe fattibile al giorno d&#8217;oggi?<\/p>\n<p>Il pi\u00f9 grande imprevisto sarebbe costituito, in effetti, dalle catastrofiche conseguenze che un prosciugamento del mar Mediterraneo avrebbe su tutto il globo. Chiudendo lo Stretto di Gibilterra, infatti, si modificherebbe in modo evidente la <strong>Corrente del Golfo<\/strong>: il risultato sarebbe la fine del clima temperato che caratterizza l&#8217;Europa, con un raffreddamento costante e radicale.<\/p>\n<p>Non solo: S\u00f6rgel non tenne in considerazione, nel suo progetto, l&#8217;alta salinit\u00e0 del mar Mediterraneo, mitigata proprio dal continuo scambio con le acque oceaniche. L&#8217;interruzione di tale interscambio potrebbe far prosciugare la distesa d&#8217;acqua ancor pi\u00f9 di quanto progettato, riducendola alla stregua del <strong>Mar Morto<\/strong>: circondato da un deserto di sale, ed esso stesso talmente salato da potervi galleggiarci.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantropa, dunque, resta un <strong>sogno certamente utopico<\/strong>, nato da un inizio di secolo all&#8217;insegna della positivit\u00e0 e della fiducia nell&#8217;inventiva dell&#8217;uomo. Tale progetto a suo modo &#8220;green&#8221; rester\u00e0 sempre un argomento di discussione tra architetti e ingegneri: la sua realizzazione, tuttavia, resta oltremodo lontana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date by following us on <a href=\"http:\/\/t.me\/ilNuovoMediterraneo\">Telegram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div data-object_id=\"1965\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkwrap cbxwpbkmarkwrap_guest cbxwpbkmarkwrap_user_cat cbxwpbkmarkwrap-post \"><a  data-redirect-url=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/\"  data-display-label=\"1\" data-show-count=\"0\" data-bookmark-label=\"Aggiungi ai Preferiti\"  data-bookmarked-label=\"Rimuovi dai Preferiti\"  data-loggedin=\"0\" data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"1965\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig  cbxwpbkmarktrig-button-addto ld-ext-left\" title=\"Bookmark This\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig-icon\"><\/span><span class=\"ld ld-ring ld-spin\"><\/span><span class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig-label\" >Aggiungi ai Preferiti<\/span><\/a> <div  data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"1965\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap\" id=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap-1965\"><div class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-message\"><div class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-message-head\"><span class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-message-head-label\">Please login to bookmark<\/span><a class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguesttrig_close\" role=\"button\" title=\"Click to close bookmark panel\/modal\" href=\"#\" ><i class=\"cbx-icon\"><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><line x1=\"18\" y1=\"6\" x2=\"6\" y2=\"18\"><\/line><line x1=\"6\" y1=\"6\" x2=\"18\" y2=\"18\"><\/line><\/svg><\/i><i class=\"sr-only\">Close<\/i><\/a><\/div><div class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-content\">\n<div class=\"cbx-chota\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12\"><div class=\"cbx-guest-wrap cbxwpbookmark-guest-wrap\"><div class=\"cbx-guest-login-wrap cbxwpbookmark-guest-login-wrap\"><form name=\"loginform\" id=\"loginform\" action=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/wp-login.php\" method=\"post\"><p class=\"login-username\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_login\">Username or Email Address<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" autocomplete=\"username\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"login-password\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" autocomplete=\"current-password\" spellcheck=\"false\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"login-remember\"><label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label><\/p><p class=\"login-submit\">\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button button-primary\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/form><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many continents are there? 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