Due to the changing climate and rising temperatures worldwide, the sea water level will continue to increase. Different scenarios projected that the sea level would rise from 0.80 to 3.90 meters. This means that countries located by the sea worldwide are scared of what an increased sea water level will do to their shores.
Mitigating this problem seems to be too late, so those countries must adapt to this problem. One way to do this is to build dams. As is known, the Dutch are frontrunners in this matter. For example, they have built the Afsluitdijk. For that time, this was an ingenious project that was never seen elsewhere. A Dutchman named Sjoerd Groeskamp plans to create a bigger dam protecting 15 countries. He plans to place dams in Northern Europe to ensure these countries are safe from rising sea water levels. His plan is called the Northern European Enclosure Dam, also known as NEED. This dam is planned to connect France, the southern part of England, and Norway to the northern part of England. In total, the dam will be over 600 kilometres long. This is a massive undertaking and would be the largest human construction project ever undertaken.
This episode presents research results about the environmental impacts of constructing the Northern European Enclosure Dam.