Why can’t we just widen Panama Canal to like a mile wide and normalize all the water levels?

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This is an incredibly stupid question, but I’d really like to know what the consequences of a project like this would be given the current drought in the lake that feeds the canal.

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I suspect something like that happened at the Straights of Gibraltar but happened naturally. Which at the time was construed by some as an act of their deity to get rid of the “bad” people.

Just looking at the ecological disaster that would take place is enough to say “no don’t do it. I’m sure there are fish and plant species that would become extinct. People would die because the fresh water would be gone.

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