Homo sapiens.

The bus started slowly.

There are grasslands along the way, and occasionally some artificial lakes and small rivers can be seen.

At this time, the resident population of Cairo City was not large, only about 374 million people. The previous population of tens of millions was arranged by the Suez branch to other places through recruitment and job transfer.

Therefore, the city of Cairo is no longer as crowded as it used to be, and because of the climate change, it has become more suitable for living.

After passing through a forest park with an area of ​​5 square kilometers, the bus entered the urban area.

Towering radio towers, skylines and overpasses densely cover the city.

Overall, Dr. Lena's first impression of this brand new city of Cairo is that it is spacious, clean and grand.

After a while, the voice broadcast system of the bus issued a prompt:

[Dear passengers, we have arrived at Waterfall Plaza Station...]

Dr. Lena, Robin Hood and others got off the car and saw a fountain waterfall with a height of 150 meters. In the middle of the square was an artificial lake with a radius of 200 meters.

The water vapor brought by fountains and waterfalls makes the whole square very cool and humid.

Robin Hood flipped through the brief introduction attached to the invitation letter, and there was a place where the forum was held—the Sun Palace.

The Sun Palace is not an office space, but a hotel similar to the Star River Hotel. This is also the usual style of Homo sapiens, that is, the practicality and commerciality of large buildings must be well grasped.

The company does not have the idea of ​​building a large palace for display. Such large buildings are usually hotels and restaurants, and the halls can be rented out for temporary use in various meetings and celebrations.

However, Homo sapiens company's branch headquarters in various regions often do not build large buildings, but build small and refined buildings.

For example, the headquarters of the Suez branch is a very low-key Water Lily Palace, with an area less than one third of the Sun Palace and a height of only 20 meters.

The Sun Palace in front of you covers an area of ​​15 square meters and is 333 meters high.

Dr. Lena and others showed the invitation letter to the waiter at the door, and they were taken to the Harvest Hall on the 24th floor.

There were already quite a few people in the hall, and Dr. Lena quickly saw a lot of her peers, so she quickly turned to the two scholars with better relationships.

"Heath, Brian, long time no see."

The middle-aged white man with gold-rimmed glasses saw Dr. Lena with a look of surprise: "How did you get the visa, Lena?"

"I am now a citizen of Abd." Lena spread her hands.

"I see! Haha..." Another black fat man shook his head while laughing.

Dr. Lena put away her joking expression, and a look of concern appeared on her face: "Brian, what's the weather like in the Transvaal? Is there anything unusual?"

The black fat man who took a sip of espresso shook his head: "I haven't found it yet, maybe it hasn't spread to southern Africa yet!"

Heath made some discoveries: "In the past six months, Moore has had a lot more rainfall than in previous years."

Dr. Lena looked solemn: "You two, there is no way to stop the Homo sapiens company from transforming the Sahara Desert? Or delay the development?"

"This..." Brian frowned.

Don't look at Fatty Hei's stupid look, he is actually very shrewd. He obviously knows that Homo sapiens will not change the development schedule.

Heath took off his glasses, wiped them, and persuaded: "Lena, don't be naive, Homo sapiens will not listen to us, and the global climate change will be more beneficial to them."

"But if it continues like this, I'm worried that it will lead to problems with the warm current in the North Atlantic." Lena became more and more worried.

Hearing this, the fat black man Brian narrowed his eyes slightly, but he sneered secretly in his heart: "There is a problem with the warm current in the North Atlantic Ocean, you Europa must be the first to be unlucky, and Homo sapiens will not care about your life or death." '

"North Atlantic warm current?" Heath was quite concerned about this issue, after all, the Moorish Republic was located on the northwest coast of Africa.

The problem of the North Atlantic warm current is not just a matter of the North Atlantic, because the global ocean currents are connected together, and it almost affects the whole body.

He thought for a while, then shook his head very helplessly: "Our personal power is too small, and it is really too difficult to influence the decision-making of Homo sapiens."

In fact, they don't know that as Homo sapiens gradually reduces the use of fossil fuels and increases the proportion of nuclear power, the intensity of global greenhouse gas emissions has dropped by a large margin.

The Homo sapiens company is engaged in large-scale planting of various seaweeds in the shallow seas of Southeast Asia, and is engaged in seawater crops in the Sahara Desert. At the same time, it has also suppressed the felling and development of Southeast Asia and the Amazon rainforest.

This has increased the carbon sequestration scale of the ecosystem.

So now the earth is not global warming, but to worry about whether there will be global cooling.

After all, judging from the geological age, it is just in the ice age. It is only the rapid industrialization of human beings in the past 200 years, which has emitted a lot of greenhouse gases, that makes people think that we are not in the ice age.

If the warming and insulating effects of industrial greenhouse gases are excluded, the earth has actually been cooling for thousands of years.

Human beings should be grateful for the greenhouse gases produced by industrialization, otherwise the middle and high latitudes would be colder and food production would be more difficult.

Homo sapiens' behavior has unintentionally opened Pandora's box.

Chapter 483 Accelerate!accelerate!

While Dr. Lena and others are discussing the climate crisis.

As the organizer of the Africa Climate Forum, Jiang Mingxuan, the person in charge of the Science Division of Homo sapiens, appeared on the podium.

The master of ceremonies at the side quickly took the microphone and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet and take your seats. This forum has officially begun."

Soon there were meteorologists, environmental scientists, and geologists from all over Africa. In addition to scholars from Africa, there were also West Asian scholars from neighboring Africa, and some European scholars who came over through special channels.

There were more than 1000 participants.

After everyone was seated, an operable screen and a simultaneous translation headset rose up on the table in front of each seat.

The waiter on the side reminded: "Ma'am, this is a simultaneous translation headset, please take it well."

"Oh? I can understand English." Lena shook her head.

However, the waiter smiled and continued to remind: "Minister Jiang speaks Chinese."

"Huh?" Lena finally came to her senses, and had to pick up the simultaneous translation earphones and stuff them into her ears.

She was still immersed in the world dominated by Europa and America, and couldn't adapt for a while.

Although Homo sapiens stipulates that English is also a working language, there are dozens of other mainstream languages ​​that are also working languages. Chinese is used in about 18.4% of Homo sapiens, while English is 11.7%.

In addition, Homo sapiens employees usually have several languages, so in daily communication, many people give priority to using their mother tongue.

As for the situation of European and American academic circles using English as the core working language, it is impossible for Homo Sapiens.

Homo sapiens will not be used to European and American scholars.

After a while, everyone plugged in the simultaneous translation headsets, and under the guidance of the waiter, opened the graphic and text synchronous browsing panel.

Jiang Mingxuan saw the emcee's gesture and began to speak: "Welcome everyone to participate in the African Climate Forum. I will give a keynote speech on behalf of Homo Sapiens. The theme of this forum is: Sahara Greening and New Agriculture."

Lena frowned when she saw the title.

"As we all know, the Sahara Desert has cyclical climate changes. Every 7000 to 10000 years, it will enter a relatively humid period. The last wet period in the Sahara Desert ended 6000 years ago, and the next wet period is coming soon."

The scholars in the audience looked at each other in blank dismay.

Of course they knew about the periodic climate change in the Sahara Desert, but they also knew that Jiang Mingxuan was secretly changing the concept at this time.

Because of the periodic climate change in the Sahara Desert, it is the self-regulation of the natural environment.

The humidity of the Sahara Desert in front of us is the result of the artificial transformation of Homo sapiens, and the two cannot be confused.

However, Jiang Mingxuan didn't care about it at all. He continued: "Human civilization has developed to the current stage, and industrial production has emitted too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This behavior has led to a serious greenhouse effect and violates the laws of nature..."

As soon as he came up, he began to surround Wei and save Zhao, directly throwing the blame on the entire human civilization.

Anyway, it was the western forces that started industrialization first, and the scale of pollution has accumulated according to history, and it is also the western forces that are the most serious and should bear the greatest responsibility.

"Homo Sapiens is a company committed to environmental protection. Our company has made indelible contributions to the earth's carbon balance, including eliminating most of the fossil fuel power stations and striving to develop green energy..."

Lena couldn't help it, and stood up directly: "I have reservations about this, and I agree with your company's practice of eliminating fossil fuels and using green energy, but I express my gratitude to the greening and development of the Sahara Desert. be opposed to."

Jiang Mingxuan asked back with a smile: "Why do you object? This is a very beneficial thing for the African region. Doesn't Dr. Lena want to see the Abd Republic turned into a prairie?"

"Uh..." Dr. Lena choked suddenly.

Because she realized at this time that this is the Africa Climate Forum, not the World Climate Forum, let alone the Europa Climate Forum.

She is now a "citizen" of Abd, and she must consider issues from the perspective of the African region.

But she quickly reacted: "Of course I hope that Abd can develop, but your company's transformation of the Sahara Desert will have a serious impact on the global climate, and may trigger a large number of extreme weather, which in turn will affect global agricultural production. , we should consider issues from the perspective of the whole world.”

"You said it's possible. I don't want to say such groundless words from a scholar. Now we only see that the Sahara is getting wet..." Jiang Mingxuan shook his head very calmly.

Then he continued: "Since there is a wet period in the Sahara Desert, it proves that the Sahara Desert can become wet. This does not violate the laws of nature. We just advance this process."

A group of climate scholars in Africa and West Asia did not rush to stand up and refute this.

Especially in areas with vast desert areas, they need water resources too much. For these areas, the advantages of the Sahara desert turning into the Sahara prairie definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

As for the extreme weather in other regions, many selfish people secretly sneered:

It's none of my business.

When I used to eat sand, I didn’t see you selling me food cheaply. Why should I put the overall situation of the Sahara region first?

As for the European and American scholars who sneaked in, their faces were a little ugly.

After all, Europe and North America rely on the North Atlantic warm current to form a temperate marine climate.

The latitudes of Western Europe and Northern Europe are about the same as those of Northeast Asia. Once the warm water vapor from the warm North Atlantic Current is lost, the cold current of the Arctic Ocean will sweep across the entire Europa.

The situation in North America may be even more serious.

Because of the topography of North America, once the Arctic cold current goes south, there are no mountains and plateaus to block it. The cold current can go south from the Great Lakes Plain, directly kill through the Mississippi Great Plains, and reach the tropical waters of the Aztec Bay.

Homo sapiens is the most advantageous company, because all the full-fledged branches of Homo sapiens are located in the tropics or subtropics.

South Asia has the tall roof of the world as a barrier, and North Africa has Europa and the Mediterranean Sea to cool off the arctic cold current.

Under such circumstances, Homo sapiens not only wants to green the Sahara, but also accelerates it, and strives to make the earth achieve carbon balance as soon as possible.

The positions of the two parties are different, so naturally they have different views on the Sahara Greening Project.

Although a group of European and American scholars continued to object, Jiang Mingxuan remained unmoved, and those climate scholars in Africa and West Asia were also very ambiguous.

Jiang Mingxuan also talked about the future of agriculture: "Due to the development of genetic technology, we have now cultivated a large number of seawater crops. If all parties intend to introduce seawater canals and seawater agriculture, our company is very welcome."

In response to this, all the special envoys of small forces in the Sahara region showed expressions of entanglement and longing.

Apparently they both wanted and worried about Homo sapiens.

But seawater canals and seawater agriculture are very attractive, especially in areas with vast desert areas.

The discussion on the forum lasted for more than three hours, during which Homo sapiens was full of talk. Most of the scholars from small forces just came to listen, and only European and American scholars held strong objections.

Yet objections are useless, and Homo sapiens is already accelerating.

Chapter 484 The Heavens of the Jedi

Facing Homo sapiens' going its own way, the scholars participating in the Africa Climate Forum this time showed different attitudes.

However, these scholars have no intention of leaving in a hurry.

Because next, a North African Agricultural Expo will be held in Cairo.

The powers in the Sahara, West Asia, and Central Asia have all sent a large number of investigation groups. Many of the scholars who participated in the African climate forum this time came with the inspection groups.

Dr. Lena can only stay in Cairo for the time being. After all, as a Europa, it will be quite troublesome for her to come to Cairo in the future.

She left the Sun Palace with Robin Hood, Brian, and Heath.

"Do you have somewhere to go?" Black fat Brian asked holding a bottle of mineral water.

Dr. Lena looked blankly at the unfamiliar buildings around her: "Now Cairo has been transformed beyond recognition, and I don't know where to go, what about you?"

"Go to South Cairo!" Brian suggested.

"South Cairo?" Robin Hood looked puzzled.

Brian, who often travels to the Republic of Suez, explained: "The newly adjusted Cairo metropolitan area is actually not a city, but a group of cities, including 7 urban areas in total. This is actually the city of Central Cairo."

"Is there anything special about South Cairo?" Hill asked curiously.

After taking a sip of mineral water, Brian continued: "There is a seawater canal passing by in South Cairo. The place is very impressive, and there are many East Asian restaurants."

"Okay! Let's go over there for a stroll!" Dr. Lena did not refuse.

Soon the group got off the subway station and took the subway to South Cairo, 37 kilometers away.

After they got off the subway station, Brian, who was familiar with the road, took them to a tea restaurant beside the canal.

By the floor-to-ceiling windows, Dr. Lena overlooks the blue water surface 75 meters below. Because it is a canal hub, the area of ​​the seawater canal here is very wide, and the width of the river reaches about 1.8 kilometers.