Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands'
The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe
"Egypt is a graveyard for occupiers," observes Ramadan el-Atr, a fruit farmer near the antiquated town of Rosetta, where authorities have contracted a Chinese company to build a huge wall of concrete blocks in the ocean to try to save any more land from melting away. "Just like the others, the sea will come and go – but we will always survive."
Scientists aren't so sure.
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