A Case for World Government
It would be nice to have a canal cutting through the entire United States, approximately in the middle. This way cargo ships wouldn’t have to go all the way down to Panama and back up again to get from one half of the U.S. to the other. Plus, it would create a safety buffer between the North and the South in case things go sour again.
I guess Panama was chosen originally because it’s such a tiny country. A canal crossing the entire USA would, admittedly, be a much bigger and more costly (in lives and money) endeavor. But that just means it would be even more satisfying to accomplish. We could really just sit back and look at that thing, and be like, “Wow. We did it.”
Even better would be a second canal lined up with the United States one through the Mediterranean and Eurasia. It would be a path around the entire world and once a ship was in it, it would never have to steer again.
This isn’t going to happen, though, until all countries are controlled by a single benevolent world government.
3 years ago