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Throwing stones at people's houses when you live in a glass house yourself and all that...
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Egypt is experiencing a famine and food crisis:
I'm puzzled, Egypt was historically the breadbasket of whichever lucky empire happened to govern it, be it the Romans to the Abbasids. What the hell happened?
Apparently, Egypt has been on Food Aid for the past 50 years.
I'm puzzled, Egypt was historically the breadbasket of whichever lucky empire happened to govern it, be it the Romans to the Abbasids. What the hell happened?
Apparently, Egypt has been on Food Aid for the past 50 years.
Wow, aren't Europeans lucky to just happen to have a warm winter while everyone else gets hit by cold waves? Seems like what was supposed to happen to Europe all went to US instead. Maybe mother nature is giving them one last chance to reconsider their choices before they hit rock bottom?
Egypt drank the koolaid of 'miraculous postwar growth' via petroleum and globalization. They grew their population far beyond that sustainable by the (still vast, but not infinite) agricultural potential of the Nile River, urbanized key agricultural regions along the river, and indulged in religious extremism.
This is the blowback. Enjoy.
There are two major factors: Population and geography.
1. Population: There never had been tens of millions of people living along the Nile River and the Nile flood plains at any one point of history. Meanwhile, the population count of Egypt today stands at 110 million people. In fact, the population of Egypt has been steadily rising non-stop since the 1950s and 1960s.
2. Geography: There is this map -
Notice that pretty much the entire population of Egypt lives right along the Nile River, and concentrated on the Nile Delta. The rest of the country is pretty much inhospitable arid deserts. You could even say that the entire country of Egypt depends on Nile to survive.
Considering the two factors listed above, the Egyptian population have already went way past the maximum resource carrying capacity that the land of Egypt could ever realistically sustain. That's why they have no choice but to source much of their food supply overseas.
Therefore, for Egypt to realistically resolve this issue, there are only three ways:
1. Enact population control measures; and/or
2. Reclaim the lands from the arid Sahara desert for the farming of crops and livestock, which could take decades to complete; and/or
3. Desalination of the water from the Red Sea and Mediterranean on a mass scale, and channel the water to alternative farming methods such as hydroponic farming, which would be very expensive.
The only thing Egypt can do is either colonize the Red Sea and Mediterranean coasts, or it will collapse. 110 million people in Egypt does not work. The carrying capacity is something like ~40-50 million at best with top tier modern tech if there's no imports. And with the world sliding towards confrontation if not conflict, imports are not guaranteed.