Back to Dar Beirut, once upon 2012, before Lebanon's Ponzi collapse and corona...
...the heart and soul of every economy are small businesses; GDP, GNI, do not capture that. There is a "je ne sais quoi" that anchors a country's economy, and that cannot be captured by statistics... and that, once lost, is impossible to recover.
The COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity