Why do most projects distort the earths landforms and bodies of water in one way or another?

Bad idea for a number of reasons. The rainforests of Central/South America are actually fertilized from wind blown soil chemicals and nutrients that are carried across the Atlantic from the Sahara region....some 50 million+ tons of nutrients which the rain forests would not otherwise receive. Were it not for those nutrients being delivered every year, much of the forests would soon die out from nutrients leaching form the soil due to the large amount of rainfall...assuming those patterns did not change.

And with those forests decimated, more CO2 would accumulate in the atmosphere without them to capture it. More CO2 means the global average temps would rise faster along with sea levels. If your concern is deforestation, misuse of land and loss of biodiversity, that would be on a massive scale if areas of the Sahara were converted to non-desert area or some kind of oversize pool to store glacial melt water to prevent sea levels from rising.

The oceans of that Atlantic area as well rely on wind-blown nutrients for plankton growth and other lower levels of the food chain. http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.... Delivering or shipping runoff water from glaciers would also be cost prohibitive although some people and companies have developed feasible plans to capture and tow icebergs to provide fresh water for the African areas where it is scarce. But the area does not really need a source of water...the eastern Sahara region already contains one of the largest ancient underground aquifers in the world...the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer...which holds more water than all the Great Lakes combined many times over.....over 1000 years worth of flow of the Nile River.

The main issues are who owns it and how fast to draw it down/conserve it. "The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) is the world’s largest known fossil water aquifer system. It is located underground in the Eastern end of the Sahara Desert and spans the political boundaries of four countries in north-eastern Africa.1 NSAS covers a land area spanning just over two million km2, including north-western Sudan, north-eastern Chad, south-eastern Libya, and most of Egypt.

Containing an estimated 150,000 km3 of groundwater,2 " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_San...

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.