The natural bridge in #Lebanon's Kfardebian, a small wonder carved into the Karst formation by water erosion.
The soils in this region retain water moisture well into the summer. This allowed the inhabitants of Kfardebian used to farm those lands with little irrigation, since times immemorial. In the past, their remoteness made those lands unattractive; a real chore to farm, and very hard to protect...
That is, until skiing came to Lebanon and the region; one of the best #skiresort in the entire Eastern Meditteranean is in Kfardebian and its dependencies of Faraya and Faqra. The other one is Lebanon's Cedars, in Becharreh.
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
