In the hills around Baskinta, snow linger into April and May. In some places, the snow holds out until mid Summer.
This was more common in the past. Going forward, precipitation rates in some countries like Lebanon are not expected to decrease. However, with the expected increase in average precipitation, more of this water will fall as rain, and not as snow.
With more rain coming in, less snow will accumulate on northern mountain faces and sheltered crevasses.
This means less snow to melt in spring and summer, and a decreased recharge of Lebanon's karst aquifers.
This means less water in the summer.
Unless you build dams...or better yet; unless you rebuild ancient terraces, and plant them.
Each terrace is a hidden dam.
The more we progress, the greater the risk of a devolution into a #DimAge Already, our own #technology is growing too complex for us to understand or manage, and scales up faster than our own understanding can keep up.
In todays’ world, transport choke points are unavoidable, a feature of an unsustainable, #globalized world.
The #RedSea passage #BabElMandab is one of those, critical because of the #MiddleEast's central importance to the world's #EnergyEconomy
Agree to the rich world's desired outcome, before building the systems that made it rich? You get one form #CarbonColonialism
Then again, too much of a system focus, you get the excesses of the gilded age.
Better a #FailedState than a crazy kingdom.
A failed state is like a broken clock; it is broken, but may still be right twice day. On the other hand, a crazy kingdom is like an off clock; if it is off by 5%, it is only right once every 10 days.
...In addition, in a failed state, you and your community stand a chance to grow and succeed; the crazy king can't easily reach you, unlike in our modern anarcho-tyranny
