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[@GeographyGeek]

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[@yokartik]

Make Egypt great again... much love from Turkiye.

[@timbradley3228]

I'm Egyptian and live and work in the gulf I've been visiting 🇪🇬 egypt twice a year for the last 20 years lately I can see large green patches from the airplane ✈️ window... due to the agricultural efforts the government spares on reclaiming the desert 🏜 And new cities looks nicely designed 👌 unlike the old concrete random scattered building.. ..... Egypt is changing ....

[@user-sn3yo3ht4v]

Wafed

[@Magdyy]

Try to get out of the plane and live inside

[@timbradley3228]

@Magdyy if you are not happy inside it, feel free to leave it Just don't corrupt other people's Feeling's towards it Everybody witnesses the change If your eyes And sole can only see the bad things Please don't share your bad vibes around

[@Magdyy]

@@timbradley3228 don't worry I ain't spoiling anyone. It's good for tourists and the rich but don't you dare to beautify the fact about Egyptians' life bc it sucks and the gov is robbing them to feed the rich !

[@Slowhobolicker]

Honestly Egypt needs to get their act together, theyre sitting in a pretty spot in the Mediterranean, huge oil resources, amazing trade potential. They have ancient history, tourist attractions, etc..yea they have a bad situation with an increasing desert and population but that’s where they need a culture change, get smarter, and create more.

[@spacedolphinproductions8230]

curroption enough said

[@furymysteries3276]

@@spacedolphinproductions8230 the corropotion is not as high as u think, not because the army is in project in 30% means its corrupt

[@spacedolphinproductions8230]

@@furymysteries3276 i think i know how corrupt my country is because there alot of things you dont know and media doesnt tell you

[@mazenadel7905]

Huge oil resources?

[@spacedolphinproductions8230]

@@mazenadel7905 are u egyptian?

[@luis_zuniga]

Egypt has so many interesting mega projects ongoing.

[@hatoosy]

Idiot president wasting billions on megaprojects without conducting quality review.

[@GeographyGeek]

A few of you may have noticed this video has a lot of parts similar to another video I posted a little over a year ago. That video had some issues I could no longer overlook so I decided to take it offline and make some major changes and additions. This is that video. Next up is a couple videos on Lewis & Clark’s maps. I’ve been working on these for what feels like forever. They may be a little niche but they are some of my favorite videos I’ve worked on so I hope ya’ll will watch them!

[@user-ne6iz6to2g]

To correct and add to your information, the obstacle that prevented Egypt from exploiting the Toshka overflow is the presence of a natural obstacle (mountain) that prevents the passage of water, which the state had to remove by using an estimated quantity of 3 million explosives. Finally, greetings to you and your respected channel

[@raymondsmith9975]

multiple factories are emptying their waste into the Nile...how tragically poetic...

[@MJ-og8tm]

Egypt big country and i love Egypt so much ❤

[@jaybee4577]

I once read that a major reason why many countries particularly Egypt stop growing their food is because of economics. So basically Egypt produces and export various fruits instead of planting their staple food like wheat for self sufficiency. They rather import their staple food, and then sell their fruits for more money on the international market. While Countries like USA, France India, Nigeria produces their crops not mainly for export but for self sufficiency.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

The pandemic showed the dangers of over reliance on global markets.

[@thehind8861]

Yeah thats in mubarak's era. That changed

[@rowantharwat9195]

Thats true. egyptian wheat is of higher quality and more expensive than importing the Ukrainian one

[@mahmoodali5043]

That is too shallow a view. I am an egyptian agricultural engineer; Egypt is one of the largest citrus fruits producers because we are cultivating them on coastal farms where they can tolerate salinity levels that are intolerable to wheat. Wheat is a rather nightmarish crop in the sense that it is excessively intolerant to heat and cold, needs high-quality soil to grow and leaves said soil severely degraded after cultivation as it sucks the soil dry of nutrients and therefore needs crop rotation by nitrogen depositing plants such as fava beans. Historically, wheat was not cultivated in egypt until relatively recently aka the renaissance era, as the crop is just unsuitable forcmass growth in egypt. The solution is to let go of wheat and look for alternatives. northern europe's historical local dishes utilize potatoes not wheat, and for good reason. You cannot objectively compare wheat cultivation in egypt with countries such as france that sits in the perfect geographical spot in europe for agriculture, india and nigeria which have basically Eden-garden-style nature, o the US being a literal continent with all the natural resources that comes with that. To be objective, we can compare wheat with northern europe as it's too hot here and too cold there for that stupid crop and available soil for it (without for example stopping growing all other types of food for its sake) is of similar soil quality.

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@mahmoodali5043 What was the staple grain Egyptians were using during the pharaohic times? What about during Roman times? (Heard Rome import its grains from Egypt). I read somewhere that the construction of the Aswan dam also affected soil fertility since the river no longer flood and deposit new rich soil on top.

[@MrBhaha0]

I think that Egypt has a lot of potential especially considering that there is another European rush for Africa and African economies are markets waiting to explode.

[@Moustafa.barakat6374]

🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏

[@user-ne6iz6to2g]

تصحيحاً وإضافة لمعلوماتك فإن العائق الذي منع مصر في إستغلال مفيض توشكى هو وجود عائق طبيعي ( جبل ) يمنع من مرور المياه مما أضطرت معه الدولة لإزالته عن طريق استخدام كمية تقدر بـ 3 مليون من المتفجرات

[@larryberman6011]

I have always thought a megaproject to bring water through a tunnel from the Mediterranean to the Qattara depression in NW Egypt might be a game changer. The addition of a large body of water there might make the surrounding climate better, and a power plant at the exit of the tunnel could produce electricity, perhaps enough to desalinate some of the water going by.

[@ahmadradwan5914]

That will salinate the under ground fresh water reseves in egypt,

[@larryberman6011]

@@ahmadradwan5914 I was not aware that there was underground fresh water in that area. Also, I checked the altitude numbers more carefully. Given the distance and the attitude difference, there could not be sufficient power generating capacity at the end.

[@mahmoodali5043]

every egyptian citizen thinks the same as you do here and we too have no idea why the hell not, but apparently not a single administration even remotely considered that idea nor did a single international consultancy office. why? no one knows

[@ColoringAHouse]

@@mahmoodali5043 the comments above made it clear

[@mahmoodali5043]

@@ColoringAHouse didn't read it at the time. But I don't really get it though, because we aren't using them and geographically that depression used to filled with sea water not fresh water. But I don't know enough about geology to know how that works though.

[@user-rm8mk9rw7x]

🇬🇷♥️🇪🇬

[@alexginger1948]

Thanks, We Egyptians love Greeks too. 🇪🇬 ❤️ 🇬🇷

[@ASMM1981EGY]

Greece our ancient and oldest friends and neighbours 😍🤩

[@plant.hacks.4.ur.environment]

Egypt is also building new cities away from the Nile. I have high hopes for Egypt for the future.

[@Footballeditforfun]

But those cities will still rely on the Nile for water and agriculture (food).

[@Mai_TS--_--]

​@@Footballeditforfun Nope, Sinai is now producing 32% of egypt's agriculture needs even though it's a desert all through rain water

[@RK-cj4oc]

@@Mai_TS--_-- Sinai is not a desert. 40% of Sinai is highland where alot more water falls from rain.Thats how Sinai gets its agriculture.

[@coderas4180]

those cities will not be accessible to the general population, only those who can afford it

[@belkacemF]

@@coderas4180 nipe it's like30 million citizens

[@devonjardine6907]

I think Egypt, with the Sphinx, Pyramids, and so many other ancient mega projects should understand the best that mega projects don’t deal with long term problems. Adaptability and foresight are the tried and true methods. Good times can’t last forever.

[@joebadawi]

Tourists still flood those sights every morning though!!

[@darnellgrape-drinker4916]

Egypt has such a beautiful and bloody history.

[@montiswiss]

Bloody history???

[@zgoodt]

WE are not really at risk of starvation! the war just made things more expensive for us here in Egypt, yet we had no lack of any supplies at markets.

[@producedbyramy]

you may have to double check on the info that Egypt's Nile acted as a natural corridor as its water is turbulent in its currents and is not always best for commercially viable long distant routes-not that navigation friendly

[@OmarAli-cp1oy]

Typical Egyptian response to a very well done video with solid facts. Please be quiet

[@finnishlion748]

What a great video unbiased and to the point!

[@Ma7mouod1]

I didnt want the video to end, great effort

[@ItsACrazyWorld]

I love Egyptian History!

[@abrahamsoto2297]

For those that are not in the know 4100 km equates to 2547.622 miles That’s really impressive that’s even further, from where I work at in Johannesburg Michigan to Bakersfield California I am, over the road truck 🚛driver and that is some seriously impressive miles, to make a freshwater canal that long that you can see from space 🪐🛰and literally overlaps multiple states across this country is something truthfully monumental.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

The _"New Valley Project Toska Lakes"_ (in Egypt) could do with a railway to maintain it and for various other usages. Dropping the surface temperature of the nearby hot sands helps and a good way to do that is via trees grown but that takes water. However, transpiration helps temperatures dropping, so the key is to make massive amounts of humic material to bury into soils and sands _(even larger than the lakes potentially),_ partly like hugelkultur wood-beds _(but not buried wood where termites cause issues)._ Then trees can grow. Reflective solar power that heats a molten salt central tall unit also drops temperature and instead of the other "photovoltaic" panels, they are basically mirrors. The lower the surface temperature, the better. There is also the increased _(but rare in that part of Egypt)_ probability of rain hitting the ground instead of evaporating from the surface temperature being quite as high. A dual gauge _(3Metre and European gauge or British gauge, as long as it has a 3Metre gauge)_ railway would do the above and have health and computing business use cases aboard the 'train' since it _(and carriages and cargo containers)_ would be so wide. The railway _(potentially running from diesel pyrolysis fuel or maybe electricity, such that a data and power connection can run along it to help infrastructure)_ can also take vast water containers far beyond the lakes into even deeper dry desert, sometimes uphill. Getting a railway working _(for which the sands, stabilised with vegetation, get sprayed by the water 'train' via cannon and deposits of water in water towers from the railway-tankers)_ would make it easier to move vehicles around and would increase the choice of vehicles because some could fit on a 3Metre flatbed towed behind the railway's carriages and water-tankers. It is also an excuse to build basements and those are lower in temperature. Date palm fronds make excellent high temperature vermicomposting like India do _(digging a hole in the ground about the size of a car, althoough some might be lined with concrete or some other material because specific worms are in it and they go for the palm vegetation)._ It would end up with massive amounts of humic material almost never ending but eventually it would become partly self-sustaining. Growing coconut that far inland would be pretty cool but would need feasibility studies and testing. It is high in protein and lipids. It also has some antibacterial properties. However, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and anything stuck on the Red Sea _(which includes Saudi Arabia, or any of the countries near it coastally)_ can potentially grow coconut too _(as long as humic material was sufficient)._ A robot _(with all necessary food-processing tools attached)_ handing out cocunuts to passing hungry people in the desert pretty much solves every short term nutrition need they have _(or close to that goal)._ It has liquid, fats, protien, nutrients, fibre, and you can even etch a Q-R code advert on the side of it, and later a unique code for the person. Then when they can't eat anymore more you offer them a _"waffer thin mint"._ The lakes could have solar desalination at some points because there is so much light and heat. It's be kind of a cool though experiment to turn the whole patch green between those lakes and the Nile to the East, so the green area is as big and green as the Nile delta up North by the Med Sea. That genuinely might cause it to rain a bit because a rainforest might spring up. It would probably require massive amounts of explosives and bulldozers and eurotunnel style boring machines to make a canyon-sized water canal from the West most Lake to the East, Al Ambarkab. Somebody might object however if some rock there is found to have prehistoric relevance (and beauty) or a dinosaur were found and an expert wants to measure its toe or flipper or what have you. Or maybe an insect lives there and is almost about to become listed as protected. Pretty cool RTS level though, as a big X shaped canal would then go across its new aforementioned green area to make the area wet. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.

[@omranelsweefy966]

Actually Egyptian army is ranked the 9th, Egyptian culture and arts, as well as accent are dominant in Middle east.

[@warcriminal3414]

true Egypt has a very powerful influence in the middle east and North Africa and got the strongest most diversified Army in the region it known as the De Facto Leader of the Arab world some may try to dispute that but it is the truth

[@tahaelgebaly]

Do video about red sea rivers from red sea mountains that was even before nile river exist from about 35 million years ago

[@MrBlueBurd0451]

I was hoping for any mention of a Qattara Depression canal project, but I guess not.

[@GeographyGeek]

I didn’t include it because there doesn’t seem to be any serious interest or plans in actually doing it right now. I thought about making a separate short on it though.

[@MrBlueBurd0451]

@@GeographyGeek Understandable. I would love that short though, it's one of those rare megascale borderline geoengineering projects you don't see come by often.

[@johnathanjackson7165]

Does egypt have any resources outside of the nile river? It's gonna be difficult. Water is essential to a civilization

[@jasonreed7522]

He said 97% of Egypt's fresh water is from the Nile. (Historically Egypt [Kemet at the time] was described as the Gem of the Nile because without it they wouldn't exist) I think the key water resources they need to focus on are solar powered desalination and asking Los Vegas about their water recycling to recapture domestically used water. (Sewage can be made drinkable again but its much easier to make is safe enough for release into nature or as irigation for decorative plants and let nature finish the purification process) Basically if Egypt wants more water they need to make it, or become more efficient about using it. (Making it is good anyway because being solely dependent on 1 point of failure is not wise)

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@jasonreed7522 They'd probably hate it being mentioned but Israel seem to be doing fine with just the water from the far smaller Jordan river so I think Egypt definitely still have room for improvement considering how much water the Nile have in comparison.

[@moustafamahgoub1064]

@@nunyabiznes33 Egypt is actually cooperating with Israel to learn those techniques

[@mahmoodali5043]

@@jasonreed7522 historical side note: Egypt was never called Kemet. Kemet is a modern anglicized pronunciation of the Latinized KEMT transposition of the egyptian word pronounced Gypt or Gopt depending on dialect. The ancients; like the greeks, heard the correct pronunciation of the egyptians and transfered it to become the root of Egypt in european languages. To this day; egyptians call themselves Gpt. Before the arab invasion; arabs referred to egypt by the hebrew-root Misr but to its people as Gpt as well. It may be strange that gypt can be written in a way that is confused as Kemt; but look at english and TION are pronounced with an SH sound eventough there are not SH or CH there. Same concept there. Kemet is nothing but a modern appropriation of a latin language written transfer; rather than the phonetic transfer that happened since the beginning of time; Egypt

[@SG-js2qn]

Sea levels aren't rising, but Egypt's delta is sinking due to the pumping of well water, just like in New Orleans.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Overpopulation and water shortages will cause huge problems soon.

[@Omer1996E.C]

I don't believe in this claim, egypt is not improving it's agricultural sector, it's not population problem. If so, netherlands would've been a net food importer and the world would've died of hunger in the 19th century according to malthus and youj6

[@Omer1996E.C]

@@rey_nemaattori it's egyptian government failure then. The richest country in Africa and is unable to desalinate seawater with abundant solar and wind energy?

[@williamdaniels9728]

From a national security perspective the middle east & Egypt is food/water. It's smart to build as many desalination plants as possible and terraform unused land into usable land. They are making a lot of good moves I am surprised you didn't make mention of their capital moving to New Cairo.

[@taimalik1110]

Egypt is the heart and mind and spirit of the Arab world!

[@samanthasebastian5450]

A bit late but great video!

[@GeographyGeek]

I appreciate it!

[@drekodre816]

Here’s a challenge. Do a video about Jamaica’s history and what’s happening.

[@jellemaarten2145]

Egypte is making great modernisation progress!

[@canberralimohirecar]

Egypt in coming back right now and the new republic of Egypt is going and nothing will stop it

[@maavet2351]

They should use more tower farming

[@zainmarai9521]

I don't need the round trip of egypt when I AM IN EGYPT

[@ameirtbedeir9750]

الحمد لله❤🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬

[@LordChaos2010]

Egypts Problem is the same as almost any country. Private sector are the most evil people in the world. What I mean is the richest people are nothing but a bunch of Mafia bosses that are holding this country back. This country has loads and loads of money but sadly its only in a very small group of Business owners.

[@eliyonmilo9297]

you just sounds like a socialist to me

[@dyiaa926]

personally i think egyptian already one of the most influential countries in the world but is never covered by its determination, it’s history, culture, cairo, other cities, tourism & i think it may dominate the worlds economy at some point with China India & USA

[@joshbentley2307]

😂 good joke.

[@dyiaa926]

@@joshbentley2307 literally is 💀more relevant n known than other countries

[@18carlox32]

@@joshbentley2307 better than your country

[@kyzantia8884]

I think ancient egypt is incredibly influential, however modern Egypt isnt, and i think the situation for Egypt will continue to get worse in the future not better

[@joshbentley2307]

@@dyiaa926 “dominate the world’s economy at some point with China, India and the USA”!? Egypt wont even be the strongest country in Africa in the future, Nigeria and potentially the East African federation (if it ever formed) will far surpass Egypt. Egypt won’t even surpass great powers like Japan, Germany, France, U.K., South Korea ECT never mind superpowers like the USA and China. I don’t understand why you think Egypt is a potential superpower? I see Egypt’s future as a strong regional military power in the Middle East and the north of Africa, but is only relevant globally due to shipping lanes and history. However Egypt dose have a bright future, and your average Egyptian will be richer than your average citizen in the stronger African countries.

[@oxvendivil442]

Slowly and sustainably reducing their population according to their environment's carrying capacity would make more sense than terraforming a land that doesn't have enough water to begin with, with better living conditions even if Egypt's population is halved it would still be a power player in the Arab world especially with the eventual weakening of the energy producing gulf states as supply and demand for fossil fuels decrease especially with climate change. Being too ambitous is a very high risk thing especially in a changing world due to politics and climate change.

[@ItsLofty101]

Yeah if the people would stop breeding ffs. How do you stop them from breeding may I ask?

[@oxvendivil442]

@@ItsLofty101 Thru education, controlled supply and availability of contraceptives and government incentives on their ideal birth rate, abortion if it is societally acceptable.

[@ItsLofty101]

@@oxvendivil442 And if the people continue to give birth to a lot of people nonetheless? You really think no one has thought of those???

[@oxvendivil442]

@@ItsLofty101 Nature has a way of controlling the population if anything else fails and it is called famine and war.

[@ItsLofty101]

@@oxvendivil442 Yes and sadly people don't realise that. But the government can't really do anything abt it

[@LordChaos2010]

A little correction the Aswan High dam barely gives Egypt 10% of its electrical needs. The biggest worry of Ethiopia's Dam is that its not really build correctly and if it breaks it will drown all of Sudan. Egypt could take the dam down they have the military and firepower its just they dont want to use that solution.

[@prideofegypt388]

Lol how can it not been built correctly it’s generating power as we speak

[@tigistmekuria5054]

Don't worry brother nothing will happen. For more information go to kings of Abbay KZbin channel, you can get more information in Arabic.

[@anberbirbelete2172]

Are you able to tell us what exactly made you say “it’s built incorrectly “? We in Ethiopia definitely don’t want any harm to the beloved Africans The Sudanese people.

[@prideofegypt388]

@@anberbirbelete2172 exactly lol he is nuts

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Why are the borders to the sea so small in some states like Mississippi, Alabama?

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Sounds like a bad deal :P

[@rezaaparsa]

Correction: Achaemenid Persians put an end to Egypts dynasties, not Alexander of Macedon!

[@eliyonmilo9297]

how is ali khamenei pumping you

[@creestee08]

11:45 AQUIFIERS? or aquifers?

[@thinkquickly6279]

Need to build a desalinization plant. One day the Nile is going to dry up. The mountain will shake. Redirect the water flow West across the desert and more to Ethiopia.

[@GeographyNuts]

Consequences

[@Pocoyoles]

whose consequences

[@JaKingScomez]

@@Pocoyoles they

[@Ibrahim_Hakami79]

I think Nature will have the last laugh as always

[@abdosoliman]

actually, we have hit sufficiency in many crops in 2022. more than 2 Million Feddan are planned for Land Restoration by 2030 the project is called New Delta. so far about half a Million Feddans have been successfully restored. the project relays heavily on desalination plants we already have 82 working plants with a yield of almost 1 Million Cubic meters per day and 14 new plants are planned to be completed also before 2030. the project uses state-of-the-art technology and irrigation systems combined with investment in improving and increasing the yield of the delta and the Nile valley we should practically hit sufficiency in basic all crops and reach 65% to 70% sufficiency in wheat production. we are basically burning Billions of Dollars every year with one goal in mind reaching food security by 2030. then Russia, The USA, and China decides to burn each other because of course they did and deliberately delay the entire world's schedule.

[@lucasaxavier]

They should invest in sending egipticians abroad... like cuba does with its doctors and north corea with is force labors. Saudi Arabia already have the demand... just some "shady contracts" could solve population and food at the same time

[@warcriminal3414]

yeah we already do that tons of Egyptians are all over the Arabian Gulf and in Europe and Russia too

[@urielalbertosanchezm]

Potatoes plants tolerate salty water very well

[@eneskablan3063]

egypt spread free preservative

[@djehuti5571]

modern egypt doesn't have cultural influence ! literally most of media in the arab world come from egypt and the most understood arabic dialect is the egyptian although it is not very similar to the standard arabic

[@Handle0108]

I think he means for its size, Egypt should have a lot more.

[@user-hq6vc2cv5g]

@@Handle0108What are you talking about!? Out of 22 members of the Arab League (including Syria), Egypt alone contribute up to 92% of all film,drama, theatre, literature and music. The only Arab Noble prize winner in Litereture is Egyptian. Over 2 thirds of the top 100 Arabic movies are Egyptian.

[@joebadawi]

In mid antiquity, philosophies, religions and books were formalized, created and written in Alexandria, it was the world's capital of knowledge and academia, and I think such influence is what he meant

[@jontaedouglas7244]

Imagine the ancient kingdoms if they could see the Nile now 😅

[@BigWoodzCBCL]

I think they will work together with saudi on the new NEOM City to make that entire area of the world a international trade hub.

[@eliyonmilo9297]

yes they will but saudis will take 90% of the benefits , it is well known that arabs don't like egyptians , they only likes the land of egypt and just want to use it for their own benefits

[@kyzantia8884]

Pure fantasy, NEOM city is a scam

[@timothymills3864]

“In the USA we spend 6% of our income on food.” Maybe in some houses but I pay way higher than that and am closer to the 40% the Egyptians pay.

[@livanoguerrero3385]

Van a secar el Nilo y solo quedarán las pirámides...

[@homyce]

Born and raised in Egypt here. All of Egyptians' suffering and woos can be summarized in one word: "Military rule". Period.

[@ibrahemmansour8414]

ياريت متهبدش

[@homyce]

@@ibrahemmansour8414 Have been waiting for 3 days for the first fascism supporter to start trolling my comment, thought you guys went extinct! (which is not that far fetched given that it's honestly mind blowing that there are some people who still support that regime after more than 7 decades of utter failure and misery).

[@maa8923]

And this military rule is the one who is trying to save egypt so plz متهبدش

[@ibrahemmansour8414]

@@homyceكما قلت متهبدش فالموعد قادم بشكل قاتل واتكلم عربي

[@homyce]

@@maa8923 well its been "trying" for 70 years and it's shittier than ever 💩💩💩

[@Draconianoverlord55]

Egypt was the bread basket in antiquety

[@MKCupra]

I've visited Egypt 6 times in total, and I've travelled across the country twice. Yes, there are some really interesting historical sites, the Sphinx is a sight to behold, and broadly its a reasonably friendly country. On a 1-1 basis, the people are actually very welcoming to foreigners, especially outside of the bigger cities. I have to admit, though, Cairo, the Nile river, and the surrounding areas, are total dumps. The Nile river flowing through the city is absolutely filthy, comparable to other rubbish filled rivers in parts of India. It actually stinks of raw sewage. Literal streams of rubbish flowing into it, all piled up on the banks too. The footage in this video is not an exaggeration. Its worse than this. Places like Sharm el Sheikh are great for a family holiday, only because they are basically "walled" or "restricted" tourist only towns, which don't really give an accurate representation of the whole country. Locals aren't allowed access unless they work there.

[@OmarJustice]

Sorry but you are wrong, from long time now any citizen can go to sharm and hurghada, or anywhere in egypt, Egypt now rapidly changing, I agree cairo had a lot of slums and dumps due to ovee crowded population, and lack of system, but now all of this changed and we demolished all the slums and built new modern cities, we are building new 46 cities to spread out of the 7% area we are already living in, and all the new cities are modern and clean, you can search for "new cairo", "al alamaien", "marsa alam, "nuwbie" as example

[@dr.floridaman4805]

If Egypt switched from cotton to wheat they would be fine

[@mahmoudsobhyx]

Cotton is more expensive 😂

[@Lightologyy]

for the first point they made a new project to filter out sewage water so farmers can use it instead of nile's water the new toshka project is taking care of the wheat imports issue but ye population increase is shitty nothing from ethiopia affected nile yet despite them claiming things but if something happens the government made it seem like there will be conflict since diplomacy didnt work with ethiopia they left us on read

[@emre05x]

what Egypt lacks most is a decent and educated leadership

[@thehind8861]

Not a problem now

[@joeb1341]

You missed the demise of ancient Egypt by at least 4 centuries! In 727BC Nubian King Piye invaded and set up the twenty-fifth dynasty. The Assyrians then overthrew the Nubians and set up the twenty-sixth dynasty ( 655-525BC). The Persians then overthrew the Assyrians in 525BC and ruled into the time of Alexander the Great ( 332BC ).

[@ahmadfathy7994]

No in this age Egyptian damaged Nubian king absmteic

[@deezynar]

Africa needs one, or two, high mountain ranges, that will collect annual snowfall and provide a more reliable water source. All they have to do is move an unprecedented amount of rock and soil to build a couple mountain ranges that are 5,000 meters high. The material could come from the steep edges that surround almost all of the continent. Easy peasy.

[@nicetula1044]

Ok I see that you probably dont think that the amount of material needed to build that mountains is enourmous, the cost of the proyect would be too high because of moving and extracting millon of tons of material and you will have to cover a huge area with that material loosing a lot of usefull land so the is no way that proyect could be done

[@jasonreed7522]

This is already how the Nile gets its water, winter rains in Ethiopia. The congo is also a massive rainforest. If the deserts want water they will have a much easier time using solar power and desalination than litterally building a mountain range to rival the Andes, Rockies, or Himalayas. (Something the leeward aka rainshadowed side won't support)

[@deezynar]

@@jasonreed7522 Other than Egypt, Africa is designed to be inhospitable to economic prosperity, and inland navigation is one of the key contributors to economic prosperity. It has no major mountain ranges in its heartland to gather vast quantities of winter snow which gets slowly released in spring and summer. Nearly all of Africa's rivers are navigable for only part of the year. The whole continent is almost one giant plateau that rises right up from the sea. The fall line is near the coast, so inland navigation has to deal with a large elevation gain shortly after leaving the sea. And it has a coastline with almost no natural bays and harbors. These conditions contrast starkly with Western Europe, Eastern Asia, Eastern North America, and Eastern South America. Those areas have large, high, mountain ranges and rivers that can carry shipping year round. They have large plains near their coasts, with fall lines set back a long enough distance to make inland navigation profitable in ancient times. And, those areas have coast lines that are riddled with bays and natural harbors, which encouraged ancient peoples to explore the seas without fear that their expensive boats would be dashed onto the shore by waves when they returned home.

[@nunyabiznes33]

Didn't some Middle Eastern sheikh had the same idea? LOL.

[@jensboettiger5286]

Ok, scrape the salt out of the dry lake beds and refill, problem solved

[@tassadar101r]

It will be very interesting to see what Egypt does when Ethiopia constructs that dam.

[@thedrunkenrebel]

My money is on massive emigration. Like, 50 million at least. Hopefully they'll stay south of the Mediterranean

[@sayednegm2185]

No if there is no diplomatic solution we will go to war

[@deviljho4260]

@@thedrunkenrebel why south?

[@mohamedfarrag4490]

@@thedrunkenrebel yeah keep pulling things out of your ass this is Egypt not Syria or Iraq we don't run away from our problems I guarantee you there will be a bloody devastating war if the Egyptian Nile dried

[@Handle0108]

@@deviljho4260 cause he is probably against Arab immigration to Europe.

[@skatedd2451]

It's called politicians

[@MrDavidato]

egypt t trying to solve these old choises in the previous era .. and doing its best for infra-structure .

[@michaelsomething7674]

The problem with Egypt is it's always up and coming. Just because it came doesn't mean it be coming back.

[@michaelsomething7674]

For example to build infrastructure like a road on the Nile requires a construction on both side of the river that X2 on the budget. Same thing for power grid and sewage. Another problem, majority of arable land is on the nile and thus population live there. But that inundate city's hospital, school, and other facility.

[@joebadawi]

@@michaelsomething7674 yeah, but not all our cities are straddled by the Nile, in fact very few of those exist.. See you in 10 years, we'll see then if we can come back

[@abduqodir6406]

Нил Конго дарйоси серсувлиги Ахамиятли Сохрога каттасув келтраш Яшил Сохро Аператсияси БМТ НОТО Тошклоти Ислохотго мухтож БМТ Амеркодон Шмоли Африкага кучриш

[@MrBoliao98]

It is a shame to be importing wheat in the first place. How much foreign reserves are going into wheat imports. If they don't get their act together to grow enough bread, they are in shit. How did a nation that once fed the Roman empire descend into an importer.

[@eliyonmilo9297]

the political change that happened in egypt in 1952 changed everything from a great country between the years 1820 to 1952 to a country in crisis

[@mohamed_alaa-]

@@eliyonmilo9297 no is was not a great country

[@jennifercollins566]

Garbage trucks? Recycling?

[@darkdarker4596]

Its the elephant of africa and will in the end beat south africa in technology

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Native Egyptian culture is pretty cool and unique. Too bad they insist on larping as Arabs. 😒

[@naughtiusmaximus.6821]

They are Arabs, its a good thing they stopped larping as romans

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

@@naughtiusmaximus.6821 When did they do that?

[@joebadawi]

@@Halcon_Sierreno we ain't arabs though! we are literally categorized in DNA testing as the Egyptian family branched off of a sub-Saharan African ancestry.. so yeah, we ain't arabs.. but we speak arabic though, so maybe that's it

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

@@joebadawi You're compatriots like to think they're Arabs.

[@18carlox32]

@@naughtiusmaximus.6821 we ain't arabs and never identified as Romans

[@andremiller1566]

Egypt can be powerful but never like before. Egypt was African in it's hey day. Man power, water, unlimited gold, fragrance and spices and precious stones all flowed from Africa's interior to Egypt often as tribute ( free ). This will NEVER happen again. As a present day Arab country it can be powerful amongst Arab's and it has tourism of course and a good location for this and that. But as far as being a global leader and worthy of the name Egypt or kmet, that ship has sailed and it ain't coming back.

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

It is. Already. Among. The global powers. Dummy

[@andremiller1566]

@@user-or1rm1ol3q dummy? Wow you get offended quite easily. Who raised you to be so soft? Egypt will never be what it once was. If it makes you feel better,Greece also will never be as powerful as it once was.

[@heshamhero6149]

@@andremiller1566 as an Egyptian I agree

[@joey6800]

6%? More like 10 maybe even 15% bro

[@WyomingTraveler]

Is Egypt going to have a revolution and famine soon?

[@tahaelgebaly]

no

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

No

[@WitchMedusa]

It's possible depending on how bad food prices get & how high fuel prices go. Though they just came out of one & I think the people generally understand the government is not their main source of problems. So unlikely but possible.

[@user-rz9vb8vj5u]

Yes, if things not improved

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

@@user-rz9vb8vj5u ده عندك امك بس

[@thedrunkenrebel]

Let's settle this low and wide delta and build a massive civilisation of 100k people in a space too little, completely dependent on a river that can be blocked by 3 countries. Incredible plan...

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

Did he tell u that anyone will block the river ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWLSXoJvp8uXm7c

[@artman12]

FYI, deltas have the most fertile land and before the advent of the Industrial Revolution and farming innovations, deltas were prime real-estate due to how many people they can support and how wealthy they got from trading food and other commodities.

[@zombieat]

blockading giant rivers like the nile is only a 20th century thing. no one a hundred years ago would have imagined that a mighty river like the nile could die. there were plenty of drought but never a permanent reduction of annual water flow.

[@joebadawi]

so what do you propose?? they should've just quit and die?? I mean those people probably didn't even know where the water is coming from!!

[@nunyabiznes33]

Well to be fair to the ancient Egyptians, they did extended their rule south using islands on the Nile as forward bases. And they didn't had to worry about Ethiopia building a big ass dam.

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

They kept stopping its canal projects - there are huge sections of the nile that meander and almost create islands and the smallest distances were the river is closes should have canals built on them and then there are half a dozen other canal projects that go far into the desert they should have build long ago!! The United States should have helped build these canals since they knew there was going to be a population explosion!!! There are a number of dry river beds that go deep into the Sahara they have no plans in filling with water but once the canals are built and they are filled along with the lakes these river beds will be easy to fill. What they need to do is build 1,000s of indoor farms that grow underwater plants to plant in the canals and the lakes that will maintain water levels and allow the water to remain fresh water and all the destillination plants should be connected to one pipe line witch goes all the way down south so if the water is low huge amounts of fresh water can be pumped into the canals so the water stays fresh. Once the ecosystem stabalized (planting vegitation in canals and lakes are vital to this) it will be very stable!!

[@omartarek8178]

Not the big picture.

[@godofthisshit]

Ethiopia, control your destiny.

[@only1raay]

Ayo American providing aid for contraceptive while domestically trying to take those same rights away is WILD!😪

[@RySL66]

Will men ever cure their addiction to oil

[@jasonreed7522]

In about 50years (current economical reserves/ current production, clearly a flawed but also easiest estimate) we will run out of oil, so we have no choice but to get off the addiction, the real question is how bad the withdrawals will be.

[@stonedwalljackson5806]

"Arab spring "? You mean "Cia spring"

[@mohamed_alaa-]

no Arab spring

[@philmatthews3537]

Egypt needs a new pyramid, made from modern materials, and they need to see what's in the hole they found deep under the sphinx. Problems solved.

[@Ukie88]

Geography won’t do it as long as the arabs continue fighting each other over various beliefs.

[@mm1m1]

no military strength? lol ok

[@Uulfinn]

Population control is a really dangerous game. Countries need to have more youths than elderly or there won't be enough people to sustain the elderly when the youths grow up. Even though China ended the one child policy, the effects of it will still cause problems when the current working chinese get too old.

[@kyzantia8884]

i agree that you dont want a rapidly growing or decreasing population, but honestly i think Egypt would gain from a 1/2 child policy at this point, with climate change, and less production of food, richer countries will buy the most of the food produced and poorer nations are going to starve, Egypt's population is just far too big for the Nile to support it

[@abduqodir6406]

Коттара ботигини сувга тулдрищ самаро бериши мукин Олмлар хсобида Яшил Сохро Аператсияси БМТ НОТО Тошклоти Ислохотго мухтож БМТ Амеркодон Шмоли Африкага кучриш

[@jackcullen69]

From breadbasket of the Roman Empire to being on the brink of starvation. Fortune is fickle.

[@James-zi5en]

Egypt isn’t anywhere near starvation.

[@James-zi5en]

Go back to school.

[@jackcullen69]

Whatever you say, random internet dude. But first, let me play a song for you, on the world's smallest violin

[@eliyonmilo9297]

the political change that happened in egypt in 1952 changed everything from a great country between the years 1820 to 1952 to a country in crisis

[@nunyabiznes33]

TBF North Africa was apparently way wetter at the time. This were the times when Rome's strongest rival was on North Africa - Carthage.

[@real8310]

As an Egyptian I have to admit the start of this video isn't true at all. We are one of the top wheat exporters in the world. Starvation doesn't have to do anything with Ukraine. But nice video still

[@mohamed_alaa-]

We are not from the biggest wheat exporters in the world we are not even close

[@lfutsum4267]

Egypt is in the Middle East???

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

Yes we are

[@lfutsum4267]

@@user-or1rm1ol3q you are confusing Egypt with Egyptians, the land is Africa the people can be many things the same way a white South African is European and African but South Africa can never be European. One can even make a case, let along Egypt, Israel and Lebanon is part of the African continent

[@lfutsum4267]

@@user-or1rm1ol3q can you define how Middle East became Middle East? Is it a geographic or cultural parameter?

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

@@lfutsum4267 the land. Is. Not. Africa. The land. Is. Egypt kemet. And. It. Is. In Asia. And north Africa. Not. Only Africa European in south Africa. 🤔. We. Don't have. European. Egyptians. We are not immigration country

[@lfutsum4267]

@@user-or1rm1ol3q thank you for ur response and I understand ur passion for ur country based on the emphasis you put in to respond to me. But ur response is contradictory (Egypt is Middle East , Asia and yet North Africa ) too many things here that absolutely makes no sense to me. From Lebanon to South Africa is Africa-I stand by this.

[@dispatcher22z20]

i just woke up because i barfed in my sleep into my nose and it burns and i hate it and i saw this video when i turned youtube on

[@GeographyGeek]

I think you should get that checked out

[@user-ix7iu4wf8o]

I stand with ethopia on the dam issue, you can build dams but not others ? is that even logical egypt ? if one cannot build then no one can build not even at the end of the stream. this is the same case with the river between china & india where india is being bitchy about china building dams yet they themself already build a few couple ... same cases with many rivers around the world. Not even with an MOU.

[@James-zi5en]

The dams ethiopia is constructing will cause serious dilemmas in Egypt if built.

[@James-zi5en]

Did your mom drink while she was pregnant.

[@jasonreed7522]

And then you have dams like the ones shared by the US and Canada along the St. Lawrence that are jointly controlled to provide power, water, and control local water levels (important for shipping). If Egypt really is bothered by the Dam in Ethiopia then they should try and form a Nile equivalent of the International Joint Commission that will fairly regulate all the dams on the shared river. (Everyone gives up some control in exchange for playing the game as a team vs selfishly. Played selfishly Ethiopia could operate their dam to maximize Ethiopian interests and cause major issues downstream.)

[@anberbirbelete2172]

@@James-zi5en Dilemmas? That’s all it’s going to cause Egypt? In that case no worries because all Egypts history is a dilemma. Are they Africans/ Arabs/ Turks or Macedonians? Who’s the real Egyptian?!!

[@18carlox32]

@@anberbirbelete2172 We are Egyptians not Arabs not Turks not Romans Greek or blacks

[@LuisAldamiz]

1:05 - Actually ancient Egypt was finished since the Persian conquest in 525 BCE (and then again in 343 after a short independent period). By the time the Macedonians conquered it (to the Persians and pretending to be "liberators"), Egypt had already been a foreign dependency for very very long (even before the Persians, it was a vassal of the Assyrians).

[@Heo_Ashrafenko]

egypt outlasted all these nations, deep into the middle ages it was still the most powerful nation in the Mediterranean region

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@Heo_Ashrafenko - That's why I said "ancient Egypt" and not just "Egypt". Maybe I should have capitalized it: "Ancient Egypt". By this we all generally agree to call to the strictly native Egyptian (and not Hellenistic or Arabic) state of the pharaohs which had as main and official language Egyptian (the disticnt Afroasiatic language and not Egyptian Arabic). We could even argue that's when they were a proper, ethnically distinct, nation, now they can be easily just considered part of the Arab nation and they themselves attempted to lead the Arab nation several times, incl. in the Middle Ages but most recently with Nasser. Whatever the case Arabic Egypt (Misr) is not the same nation as Ancient Egypt (Kemit or K'm't), if it is a distinct nation at all.

[@GORO911]

@@LuisAldamiz Only difference between ancient and modern Egypt is the culture eligion\language (not saying these are small changes). But ethnically people are the same, they remain ethnically distinct population ftom their surrounding neighbours.

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@GORO911 - "Only difference"?! Yes they are very major changes. Modern Egyptians are broadly descendant of ancient ones but their whole ethnicity has changed in spite of that merely biological continuity. What are we: DNA or culture?, body or "soul"?

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@GORO911 - And also now they may be considered a sub-ethnicity rather than a neatly distinct ethnicity. The recent history of the United Arab Republic (which was eventually only Egypt, I grew up with maps where Egypt was labeled "UAR") speaks volumes. Also Egyptian Arabic has become more or less standard Arabic because of its cultural hegemony in media and movies.

[@raphlvlogs271]

but the climate of Egypt is becoming increasingly less ideal for human development

[@joebadawi]

I live there, and its fine

[@18carlox32]

Actually no summer is bearable and winter is pretty chill and good

[@parllax]

Yeah the same nation that bein in foreign control for 2,000 years.

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

We are not in foreign control since 1952

[@eliyonmilo9297]

@@user-or1rm1ol3q arab nationalists aren't foreign control!! ... YEAH

[@user-or1rm1ol3q]

@@eliyonmilo9297 there are no Arab. Nationalists in Egypt only Egyptians

[@eliyonmilo9297]

@@user-or1rm1ol3q so gamal abdel nasser was not arab nationalist ?

[@eliyonmilo9297]

@@user-or1rm1ol3q man he even changed your country name to the arab republic of egypt ... He fu**ed up so bad

[@u.2b215]

Reducing the fertility rate is a bad move. It should be used as a last resort, if used at all. Because there is no coming back from it. It's far better to invest in food production, especially improving water efficiency. That way Egypt can reduce its dependence on foreign imports and potentially even become a food exporter further down the line.

[@davidesparza3637]

Lol no chance

[@u.2b215]

@@davidesparza3637 There is no such thing.

[@davidesparza3637]

@@u.2b215 when pigs fly then

[@u.2b215]

@@davidesparza3637 I never said it was very likely. It's technically very possible but it's doubtful the Egyptian government is capable enough to take the steps necessary.

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

@@u.2b215 Stop treating the human population like a Ponzi scheme that can only be sustained through infinite growth. The world is overpopulated, and the sooner we decelerate that growth, the better off we'll all be.