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As soon as Zhang Xianli and his party left, before Fang Mingyuan could appease Lin Lian, who was still indignant, Prince Abdullah called anxiously, and after asking the address, he hurried over.

Prince Abdullah sent Fang Mingyuan's worries back to China, and now there is finally a result in the country. According to the experts of the Middle East countries, as well as Europe and the United States, they have jointly studied for seven days and have repeatedly corroborated and come up with a report full of authoritative temporary losses, making the worst rough prediction of the oil spill and oil well fire in Kuwait. This research will continue with a view to obtaining more accurate estimates of damage.

If the situation really develops as Fang Mingyuan guessed, before Kuwait recovers, millions of tons of oil may be spilled into the Persian Gulf, and most of the oil flowing into the Persian Gulf will initially float on the surface of the water and become an oil film, and then some will be pushed to the shore by the wind and waves, and some will be deposited on the bottom of the sea.

These oil leaks pose a deadly threat to the plants and seabed algae in the ocean, which are very sensitive and vulnerable to oil pollutants, and their mass death will cause a sharp reduction in the food source of marine organisms, thus cutting off the entire food chain.

Moreover, the fish in the sea, as well as the seabirds, will be stuck to the surface of their bodies by the oil slick, thus destroying their ability to swim and fly, and they can only sit and wait.

Moreover, once the oil slick is blown to the shore, it will threaten the shore ecosystem, and those plants that grow on the shore will also face death as a result.

This would be devastating to the survival of several endangered species in the Persian Gulf, including the Siberian crane, dugong and green-armored sea turtle.

Moreover, these experts also believe that even after the war, the countries bordering the Gulf, with the assistance of the international community, launched a war against pollution and made remarkable progress. However, it is still difficult to completely eliminate the oil pollution in the waters. Some experts optimistically predict that the effort will last more than a decade and cost tens of billions of dollars. More experts believe that the extent of the damage caused by oil pollution to the marine ecology will be difficult to recover for at least a hundred years.

And that's not the most troublesome, according to these experts, oil well fires are the most terrible, and even endanger the world's ecological environment.

There are thousands of oil wells in Kuwait, and because most of these oil wells are high-pressure self-blowing oil wells, the daily oil production is very considerable, and once it causes damage or burning, the damage caused is also extremely terrible. According to their statistics, if the Iraqi army ignited more than 700 oil wells, it would be impossible to quickly extinguish these oil well fires in a harsh environment, even if all the first-class firefighting experts, the strongest firefighting teams, and the top-notch firefighting equipment from the Arab countries, China, the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Romania, and Iran were concentrated in Kuwait. When it makes a deafening noise, and when the crude oil burns, it emits a scorching heat wave and suffocating smoke, and the fire extinguishing work can be said to be very difficult, and the slightest carelessness can put the lives of the firefighters in danger.

According to the calculations of these experts, it is estimated that it will take as little as nine months to extinguish 700 oil wells when they are ignited, and even a year to extinguish them. In such a long period of time, a large amount of crude oil is burned, which will cause great harm to the local and even global ecological environment.

In their reports, the experts elaborated on the damage caused by the incident.

According to the report, if the Kuwaiti oil field fire burns for one year, it will consume nearly 4 billion barrels of oil, which is equivalent to burning nearly 10 million barrels of crude oil every day for a year. According to the calculations of these experts, these 4 billion barrels of crude oil will release nearly 60 million tons of oil smoke, nearly 500 million tons of carbon dioxide, more than 600 million tons of carbon monoxide, more than 10 million tons of sulfur dioxide and nearly 5 million tons of nitrogen oxides, which can be called "the most serious man-made pollution in history"

Because the fires in the oil fields can produce smoke clouds of up to 15,000 square kilometers, they obscure the sky and the sun, and the thick smoke clouds reflect the sun's rays, thereby lowering the temperature in the Gulf region and reducing agricultural production. Due to the high sulphur content of Kuwait's oil, the levels of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide in the smoke from the combustion of oil wells were 300 times higher than the permissible amounts. That's enough to make thousands of kilometres of rainfall contain sulphur and nitric acid, which can be devastating to crops. This will cause "oil rain" in the Mediterranean, the entire Gulf region and parts of Iran, seriously damaging the local ecological environment.

Moreover, this soot is composed of a mixture of carbon black particles and dioxins, which contains a large amount of toxic substances. After inhaling this soot, people will feel chest tightness, shortness of breath, and even a feeling of suffocation, which can cause heart disease and respiratory diseases. Some toxic substances will gradually enter the food, forming incurable diseases, zuihou inducing cancer or various malformations.

The damage caused by the oilfield fires is not only that, but the soot and other substances emitted by the oilfield combustion can even drift for thousands of kilometers due to the high air currents, causing pollution to the rest of Shijie.

Moreover, the experts also mentioned that even if the Iraqis did not light the oil wells, the mere destruction of the oil wells would cause great trouble for Kuwait. For example, Iraqis could plant explosives around oil wells and pile sandbags on top of them. In this way, the blasting force of the explosives can be extended from the upper xiangxia, and then the oil well can be completely destroyed. In addition, due to the large amount of oil injected from the oil well, the pressure of the oil layer will naturally decrease, and the groundwater will seep into the oil layer. This could result in the obsolescence of a large amount of oil and could increase the cost of Kuwait by making future oil extraction more difficult due to the abundance of water.

Moreover, although the destroyed oil fields did not suffer fires, a large amount of crude oil gushed out of the ground, flowed everywhere, and then merged into a viscous oil pond on the ground, causing serious pollution to the local ecological environment, which was a heavy blow to Kuwait, which was originally a small land area, the vegetation was not lush, and it was more difficult to feed a tree than a child.

Eventually, these experts came to the conclusion that it would take tens of billions of dollars to clean up the damage, and that it could take hundreds of years to clean up.

"What a year!" said Prince Abdullah, who said with great grief, "the direct loss of crude oil is as high as tens of billions of dollars, and if you count other losses, experts estimate that it can be hundreds of billions of dollars! This is not counting the increase in people's health care costs caused by this." "Kuwait is a country that implements free medical care, and this disaster is bound to increase the Kuwaiti government's financial expenditure on medicine and health. Prince Abdullah even doubted that if all this happened as Fang Mingyuan expected, how much wealth would be left in the treasury after the Kuwaiti royal family was restored.

"If we had known this, we might as well have forgiven some of Iraq's debts. Prince Abdullah said with his head in remorse. Iraq's debt to Kuwait at the time is not even a tenth of the losses it will suffer.

"Your Royal Highness, if you really want to do that, it will only fuel Saddam's ambitions, even if war is avoided this year, but next year and the year after, he will make new demands. There is no end to human greed!" Fang Mingyuan shook his head and said. Although it was a very important reason for Saddam's occupation of Kuwait to alleviate the debt pressure, in the final analysis, it was the Iraqis who tried to claim hegemony in the Middle East. Even if Kuwait had made concessions, it would never have been possible to change that outcome.

After a while, Prince Abdullah put down his hand and said in a deep voice: "Fang, you are right, the jackal's appetite will only grow bigger and bigger, today it will ask for money, tomorrow it will ask for land, and the day after tomorrow it will still start a war." ”

"It's useless to think about what has happened, Your Royal Highness the Prince, you still have to think about it, how can you avoid such a situation from happening!" Fang Mingyuan comforted him.

"Fang, I came today to ask you, what are your good ways to avoid this happening?" Prince Abdullah grabbed Fang Mingyuan's hand and said expectantly, "Fang, since you can think of this happening, you must have thought about how to avoid it, right? If you can show us a clear way to avoid this tragedy, not only we, Kuwait, but the entire royal family in the Middle East will thank you!"

Fang Mingyuan scratched his head, he had thought about this question, but he was not sure whether it could be done. "Your Royal Highness the Prince, I am just an ordinary Chinese person, this kind of national event, which round will get me to talk about it. ”

"Fang, don't say that, if it weren't for your reminder, how would we have realized that there is such a potential crisis, and when it happens, no one will be able to stop it!" Prince Abdullah said affectionately, "Let's talk about it, maybe you can think of suggestions that others can't think of." ”

Fang Mingyuan cleared his throat, at this moment, he actually had a feeling of changing history. "Your Royal Highness, first of all, I think you should submit this report from an authoritative figure to the countries of the Middle East, including Iran, so that everyone can reach a consensus, because you will be the first to bear the brunt, and secondly, this report mentions that the pollution caused by oil well fires will affect the Mediterranean, so I think countries like Turkey, Italy and France, which are bordering the Mediterranean, are the allies that you want to strive for, especially Italy and France, whose influence on the United States and Britain cannot be ignored. ”

Speaking of this, Fang Mingyuan's heart suddenly moved, and a thought surged into his mind, "Then, you can enlist the support of my country." ”

"Your country, China?" Prince Abdullah asked in surprise, "Will this fire have a noticeable impact on China?" The two sides are separated by thousands of kilometers, and India is in between.

In the report, experts mentioned that soot from oil fires drifts away from high altitudes to other areas. The warm winds from the Indian Ocean blow to the Himalayas on our borders, and I think that because of the height of the Himalayas, there is a good chance that the soot will fall on the Himalayas, where the glaciers that do not melt all year round are the source of several important rivers in our country. Soot will absorb a large amount of sunlight and cause a large amount of glacier melting, which may cause serious water damage to the middle and lower reaches of China. If your country can find enough authoritative figures to prove that this possibility is possible, then our country will also become your country's ally in this matter!" Fang Mingyuan explained. V