Congo Lake created

Is it a troll or is it a (sad) description of the mindset of the sorts of people who proposed this plan?

If the Belgians or Germans were the ones to attempt this, I'd imagine they wouldn't care about the human cost (which is clearly terrible).
 

destiple

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Is it a troll or is it a (sad) description of the mindset of the sorts of people who proposed this plan?

If the Belgians or Germans were the ones to attempt this, I'd imagine they wouldn't care about the human cost (which is clearly terrible).
excuse me but it was the british who have been the biggest European mass murderers by FAR , if you count the Irish, native american,aborigines , indian ,african, arab etc stretching over 100s yrs

belgians and germans were late commers to the colonial game , you cannot say they were the worst.
 
If the Belgians or Germans were the ones to attempt this, I'd imagine they wouldn't care about the human cost (which is clearly terrible).

The cost in human suffering is high, and certainly the bones of thousands (probably tens of thousands) might as well be buried in the foundation, but this is the same era where in Africa, Asia, and Latin America they regularly worked people to death for infrastructure projects.
 

Vuu

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I don't think Malaria would be much of an issue, since that requires shallow, stagnant water which this lake would likely not have much of as compared to jungle puddles. HIV would also likely be removed, given its source point is now under a massive amount of water. Also, given it would take the basin 150 years to fill up, drowning would be an extremely unlikely occurrence.

For those interested, here's an earlier thread on the matter and ultimate plan of what was to happen in Africa:

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"eventual overflow into mediterranean" is impossible - lake Chad would overflow into the Benue, and it couldn't be that big, unless they construct some idiotically tall levees for kilometers
 
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