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 COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity
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.
The struggle for Suwayda as the Stalingrad of the Arabs. It is about the future of the Levant & the economic independence of the Arabian peninsula, lest we see a return of Turkish supremacy. The Druze hold Stalingrad or the Arabs lose the Peninsula
