Suyins Canal.

To be precise, it is the first Suyinshi Canal, because there are currently two Suyinshi Canals.

The second Suyinshi Canal is the one that Homo sapiens dug independently, while the first Suyinshi Canal is the old canal.

Recently, the First Suyinshi Canal has ceased shipping services, and there are many reasons for the suspension of shipping services.

Homo sapiens and the free world have a bad relationship, and in order to avoid the Soyinshi Canal controlled by Homo sapiens, the free world is trying to bypass the Suyinshi Canal.

For example, it will invest in the construction of the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal, the construction of an overland oil and gas pipeline in West Asia, the construction of the Eurasian Railway, or the use of the Arctic route and the North Pacific route.

After various schemes, the volume of shipping in the Suyinz Canal declined rapidly, leaving only Homo sapiens and some ships from the edge world to pass through the Suyinz Canal.

The First Suyinshi Canal, which has aging facilities and relatively low standards, does not have many ships passing through it at all, and is only used as a supplementary and backup channel for the Second Suyinshi Canal.

After all, the depth of the channel of the First Suyinshi Canal is only 22.5 meters, and the width is not enough, and the channel of more than 100 kilometers takes 14~16 hours of navigation time.

The second Suyinshi Canal newly built by Homo sapiens has a single-line channel width of 860~900 meters and an average depth of 35 meters, which is enough to navigate a 500,000-ton giant ship.

What's more, the navigation time only takes 7~8 hours.

Therefore, with the commissioning of the 2nd Suyinshi Canal, the 1st Suyinshi Canal was naturally left out in the cold.

However, this is not the main reason why the First Suyinz Canal has been decommissioned recently.

The main reason why Homo sapiens decommissioned the First Suyinshi Canal was the drop in sea level.

As the ice caps of Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean expand, as well as the redevelopment of highland alpine glaciers around the world, more and more water resources are trapped in ice and ice sheets.

This has led to a drop in sea levels, which on average are around 12 centimeters per month, according to current data.

By this time, the global sea level had fallen by about 1.8 meters.

If the trend of global cooling cannot be reversed, the global sea level will drop by an average of 1.4~1.5 meters per year in the future until it reaches the peak of the ice age.

According to the historical geological data, under normal circumstances, the global sea level at the peak of the ice age will be about 90~100 meters lower than the sea level in 2020.

Of course, this is generally the case, and in the event of a few extreme cases, it is possible for the sea level to drop by 200 meters.

According to this situation, it is estimated that it will take about 50 years to reach the peak state of the ice age.

Moreover, the development of ice sheet glaciers in the glacial period has a characteristic, that is, the early stage is relatively rapid, and the later stage will be slower and slower.

It is conservatively estimated that it may take about 100 years for this ice age to reach its full peak.

Therefore, the depth of the First Suyinshi Canal at this time is only 20.7 meters, and it is still declining, which is not conducive to navigation.

In addition, there were not many transport ships that originally took this canal, so the company directly stopped using the First Suyinshi Canal and upgraded this old canal.

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In fact, this is also the next problem that all major waterways around the world will face, especially those with an average water depth of less than 120 meters, which will be difficult to use as the world cools and the sea level will gradually decrease.

For example, the Black Sea Straits, which were nominally controlled by the Ottomans, have a large part of the channel less than 120 meters deep.

Even the two Mesoamerican canals, which used locks, had to find a way to realign their shipping courses, and even add a few locks to barely navigate.

Similarly, the Straits of Malacca and the Kra Canal will also encounter this problem.

Fortunately, Homo sapiens' canal excavation technology is very powerful

With the drop of sea level, the canal will continue to be deepened to ensure the normal navigation of the canal.

This is also the reason why the free world has given up digging the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, because now that it has been excavated, it is uncertain whether the sea level will continue to fall in the future and whether it will be able to be stable and navigable.

In addition, the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal has another Achilles' heel, that is, another outlet from the Red Sea - the Main Strait.

Part of the Main Strait is also less than 120 meters deep, which means that in the future the Red Sea will become a closed saltwater lake.

Even if the free world tries to deepen the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea canal, and when the Strait of Main becomes land, there will be no way to pass through the Red Sea.

As for whether Homo sapiens will dig the Main Canal.

Answer: Naturally, yes.

The Main Canal, dug by Homo sapiens, is not yet impassable for the ships of the free world.

As a result, the free world has had to reassess the strategic value of the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal, and it is better to invest in the expansion of the Eurasian Railway.

Now the free world really needs to upgrade the Eurasian Railway and expand the volume of goods transported by the Eurasian Railway.

After all, the Arctic route, which Lucia had high hopes for, is now also abandoned, and the Arctic Ocean freezes longer and longer.

According to the current trend, the Bering Strait can be completely covered by ice sheets, and after becoming a semi-permanent ice sheet, the Arctic route directly loses the possibility of navigation.

In the absence of a choice, the four major forces can only find a way to use railways and roads instead.

But as September passed quietly.

The situation around the world is becoming clearer.

The Europa Consortium and Lucia, which have suffered from severe agricultural production losses due to extreme weather, have entered the cold winter ahead of schedule.

In the northern part of Northern Europe, in particular, it was freezing and snowy as early as the end of August, and from January to October, the entire Baltic Sea region was covered with goose feathers.

The Arctic ice sheet expands a little southward from northern northern Europe, although for a while, many ice sheets do not become semi-permanent, only seasonal.

However, the problem is that this year's North Atlantic Warm Current has no sign of returning to normal, losing the warm water vapor of the North Atlantic Current, and the temperate oceanic climate in Western Europe has become a temperate continental climate, and even some areas with higher latitudes have become a cold climate.

Berlin.

The first snowstorm of autumn covered the entire city in a layer of silver.

However, this kind of scenery has a touch of cruelty.

In Berlin, which is rapidly entering winter mode, many people have to turn on the heating in advance.

Americalica's half-sold, half-given genetically modified corn is made into feed, alcohol, and fructose syrup, which is supplied to farmers and agricultural companies.

Coupled with the low-cost natural gas purchased from Lucia, the production costs of many Europa companies have been barely reduced.

There are also cheap light industrial products from Seris through the Eurasian Railway, which also alleviates the shortage of supply in the local market.

The Europa Consortium has also reluctantly increased subsidies for some products.

Only then did it barely suppress the spread of the wave of bankruptcies and stabilize internal prices once again.

However, the early cooling of the northern hemisphere still made the Europa Consortium and Lucia feel very tricky.

In order to cope with frequent extreme weather and the problem of global cooling, major forces have recently held frequent small meetings.

Human beings are still too fragile in the face of the great forces of nature.

With the exception of the Homo sapiens corporations entrenched in the equatorial region, the other forces are feeling the pressure.

While taking advantage of this God-given opportunity, Homo sapiens is vigorously absorbing natural people, and at the same time, it is also rapidly building a circum-equatorial stratospheric railway.