And under his leadership, the Libyans devised an almost crazy-sounding plan to permanently alter one of their greatest of geographic handicaps that had nerfed Libyan civilization for eons, their complete lack of any rivers.

在他的领导下，利比亚人设计了一个听起来近乎疯狂的计划，要永久改变他们最大的地理障碍之一，这个障碍长久以来一直削弱着利比亚的文明，他们完全没有任何河流。