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Lebanon

(from dezember 2022)

  1. Overview
  2. Examples of experiences
  3. Arguments for different goals
  4. Reachable results

4 - Different layers of prevailing existence

- Believes

- Motivations

- Ressources

  1. Food- & Water- assurance (with methods/inspirations)
  2. Infra-Structure: education, buildings, transport, power.
  3. Trust- and future building: what goals and measures could the population agree on: Communicating to all involved parties and setting up situation-bettering-compromises for all participants.
  4. (possibly after showing that positive change can happen and what it does: opening a Platform for the Lebanese market that offers easier contact between capital, ideas and workforce : Wishes-Platform)

Small summary of the current results:

  1. Problems:


  • indecisive, corrupted governmental organization that brings forth an underdeveloped life-supporting region.
  • poverty of  ~40% (Dez. 22), with a lack of needed products like food, pharmacy and fuel.
  • tiredness from relatively recent long-lasting civil-war, in a neighborhood that is still under high tension and war-torn.
  • burdening through intake of other people in need (1,400,000 refugees, ~1 in 6 of the entire population)
  • badly developed electricity-supply, water and wastes-management, road-network,  ........


2. Potentials to thrive:


  • educated, successful and active Lebanese people in Lebanon and all over the world, to build with.
  • culturally diverse population - 11 religions in parliament, with high level of cultural openness.
  • many people are looking for a chance to improve the quality of their lives and work for it.
  • very diverse geography ... Many natural circumstances to fulfill needs with.
  • many extractable minerals that can be used to make the inhabitants lives richer and more fulfilling.



3. Lebanon could be a country that:


  • organizes exemplarily to bring what is needed and/or desirable. It builds a structure that supports the living of the society in every found way, step by step, pragmatically. "If you can increase the prosperity of the country, then you get the freedom to do so". The attitude that lead to corruption is being solved step by step, e.g. by giving jobs to people that act in interest of the majority of people, not just a few, which in the end benefits all inhabitants more. Lasting workplaces are elaborated, for which the needs already exist, and available materials are offered. The country creates an organization that gives rise to a bunch of work that is helpful and lastingly-worthwhile for the population: elaborates work worth doing for their situation that decreases suffering.


  • "overcomes war": reflects on the experiences that lead to war, ambitiously rebuilds the society and living-space with new knowledge and is now at very much more ease from the previous heavy experiences. Got back their creativity and hope.


  • learns to earn enough money to live comfortably without the need of credits, builds homes that they enjoy very much with all the helpful available resources and utilizable situations at hand to fit their needs.


  • shares their liberating experiences and results, and finds strong friends and partners in the process.


  • connects to and furtherly elaborates the global community, creates solutions for many problems and gains great amounts of freedom and security.


  • the people in Lebanon produce many needed goods to use, with some extraordinary high yield in some fields to trade, and are in balance in importing and exporting, e.g. producing and selling construction-materials and -products and buying supportive electronics.


-> adapts to their surrounding creatively and benevolently and flourishes.


4. Step by step, building the structure by adding all possible fitting layers that support fulfilling lives:


One strong act for rising the overall liveliness and flourishment-levels could be the elaboration of an organization that focuses on demonstrating the possible environments when materials, knowledge and power of the environment and inhabitants is integrated, together with knowledge from outside of Lebanon, to fulfill their physical needs with as many helpful ideas as possible, knowing it will come in favor of possibly all humans.


           

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These layers may bring a smoothly integratable foundation, that brings a state where the people are aware of the many desirable option they have.

Quasi to offer inspiration and a helping hand on how they can make their lives fulfilling.




5) The Geology to build Lebanon`s physical structure with:

Minerals that Lebanon is rich in:


  • Lime (calcium-oxide):  e.g. for 1) construction (soil stabilization for foundations), 2) metallurgy (to remove silica, phosphorus, and sulfur impurities) and 3) as part of water treatment.


  • Iron-ore (haematite and limonite): e.g. 1) for iron and steel production (for automobiles, locomotives, ships, beams used in buildings, furniture, tools...).
  • has a under-developed industry (Lebanon has iron-ore reserves but is importing steel & iron, since electricity is currently too scarce for own production).


  • Cement: e.g. 1) binder in concrete (for all types of construction).
  • has a developed mining- & processing -industry (exporting).


  • Aluminum sulfate: e.g. 1) as part of water purification and 2) mordant in dyeing (fixing the dye on material) and 3) possibly yielding of pure aluminum.
  • Sulfuric-acids: e.g. 1) fertilizer and 2) metallurgy.
  • Phosphorus/-acids/-pentoxides: e.g. 1) fertilizer, 2) metallurgy, 3) PVC production, 4) removal of mineral deposits (chemistry), 5) dehydrating-agent (chemistry).
  • has a partly developed phosphorus- processing-industry (importing minerals & exporting some products).


  • Diamonds: e.g. 1) for drilling (one of the hardest known materials), 2) jewelry
  • has a developed mining- & partly-developed processing-industry (is exporting).
  • Salt (Na-Cl): e.g. 1) for food flavoring, 2) food preservation, 3) many applications in chemistry.
  • High-quality sand: e.g. 1) for glass-production.
  • Copper - with developed processing-industry (exporting products).
  • Gold - developed processing-industry (exporting products)
  • Lead


Each of these minerals and products most probably holds the potential to be mined and/or processed in a greater extend than it is currently done.



6) Food -assurance: (there is always the chance for trading)


  • Some very arable land, but agriculture happens wide-spread due to relatively-high industrial-scale water-supplies: 60% agricultural land ( ~10% arable land, 10% permanent crops & 40% permanent pasture), with 15% forest and 25% other (e.g. cities and "empty land")
  • Grown/cultivated food: goats, sheep, cattle, potatoes, tomatoes, various vegetables, cereals, bananas, grapes, citrus, oranges, crops, olives, apples, figs, almonds, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, sugar-beets,...
  • Food-imports, which is mainly wheat (~600,000 tons yearly), equal ~20% (5bln $) of the total imports (23bln $), while Lebanon is still exporting many fruits (may have changed recently due to many refugees).


Water-assurance:

  • Much water-supply in the winter through rainfall and snow at the mountains ( which stretch over much of the country). Countrywide ~4,5km³(4,5bln m³) water, which is much compared to regional countries. Yearly precipitation of ~1000mm water per square-meter, for comparison, Germany has ~700mm/m².
  • Lebanon is yet unable to manage their water-supply for privates appropriately (Many people have no safe or only limited access to (clean) water).
  • The water is exposed to much pollution, with only very little effort put into water purification.
  • The water is at risk due to climate change (5-20% decrease in last 45 years).
  • The water-management could be made cleaner to actually use more of the water-content which will work for feeding the people well.


https://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/


Inspiration for good water-management (the youtube-channel uploaded more videos)

7) Infrastructure (public buildings, streets, access to electricity and else)

Public and private buildings and facilities (Early-Phase):

- Housing:

Electricity & Energy:

  • Lebanon is peak consuming ~3.2GW of electricity, with an estimated 16TWh yearly. The public electricity supply is very limited (max ~2GW peak), with many times of citizens being without electricity.
  • Much of the electricity created in Lebanon is gained via industrial scale- and smaller private gasoline-generators that has a low efficiency. The entire electricity-production consists of~95% fossil-fuels, which gets almost completely imported from other countries.
  • Lebanon has ~3000 sun-hours per year with an energy of 2.2 MWh /m²/a (for comparison: Germany has approx. 1Mwh).
  • Windspeeds of ~6,5m/s at 80m altitude (global average is closer to 4,5m/s).
  • Watertemperature of ~130°C at 1,500m depth (global average is closer to 60°C).


Insights into possible solutions:

  • There is an estimated potential of: 6 GW of wind-power, 100GW photovoltaik potential and  8GW of solar-thermals.

Thus there are many possibilities to produce enough electricity for current needs and possible future needs with further growth/development.



Comparable conceptual future examples:

There are many executed and planned examples for dealing with all kinds of problems. These should just give a small overview.


Switzerland: a country with many mountains that is electricity-self-sufficient: 65% Hydropower through many mountains with the rest being mainly nuclear, wind and solar.


Saudi-Arabia: a country that is able to gather water and electricity in a dry climate: Desalinating water and using Solar and Wind, partly for production of green Hydrogen as energy-medium.


Singapore: a country that offers cooled living-space in a hot climate by using architecture in respect to desired climate.


More comparable examples to come...

- example(s) with a strong seasonal climate (cold and hot times),

- with a diverse geography

- maybe with a prosperous trading-sector

- with clean water and air

 -> it is a very helpful job that the government could employ greatly, to look for and elaborate on further strategies that Lebanon could follow after.

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8. Problems to solve, with result to enjoy:



We would like to bring clarity about the problems that the Lebanese people face and then direct resources to the problems. Hopefully to help building an organization where people can work on creating long-lasting, wide- and deep- ranging solutions, to problems that are important to themself.

It will be beneficial for everybody around the globe, but most importantly for the Lebanese people, when they are in a happy and creative state, using their influence to live, make life more enjoyable and enjoy the already pleasent parts.


Problems: unemployment, hunger, thirst, homelessness,
deforestation; soil deterioration, erosion; desertification; species loss; air pollution in Beirut from vehicular traffic and the burning of industrial wastes; pollution of coastal waters from raw sewage and oil spills; waste-water management, unavailability of products like electronics,...



Contacts we would like to make come about, to collect, concentrate and share constructive knowledge:


  • practical and theoretical professionals, workers in the fields, professors and students in the global- and Lebanese- fields of:
  • geology and geography
  • social-situation (general dealing with each other, differences in society, freedoms, etc)
  • economy/trading-situation
  • water- and food-situation
  • housing-situation
  • job-situation
  • political adepts (e.g. Lebanon`s political structure, refugee-situation)
  • other helping organizations to pull together with and share fresh insights with


-> by creating solid background knowledge with insights into possible strategies, by making visible the potentials for a better live, we will bring internal and foreign forces into creating improvements on (at least partly) common goals.

We will, together with the Lebanese, look closely into solutions. For example on:

  • possible productions with the available materials.
  • shaping of their society, physically, but possibly also socially.
  • viable electricity-production solutions.
  • viable water-management solutions.
  • viable organizational solutions, etc.
  • rational and positive mentalities that fit their situations.
  • projects worth investing time, effort and capital into.



Broad- summary of the current final plan: help rebuilding a self-sufficient governmental structure:

1) Make Lebanese people answer: What problems do you see and wish to be resolved? (create freedom)

2) Create jobs in some of the answered fields that yield money/equivalents. (create examples that can be compared with). This is supposed to happen closely connected to the Lebanese government and banks.

- extracting materials they can process.

- processes for the materials, e.g. housing and tools.

- electricity-production.

Give people the confidence that they can work a comfortable amount to have a great life, if they do not already have it.

3) help using the governmental structure (possibly Lebanese banks), which is supposed to be interested in the best solutions of the grand scheme, with most growth and wealth, which for example means to give the assignments to jobs to the best fitting people (anti-corruption-policy) -> get in contact with people in already high positions that are interested in the best solutions for all. Help creating a drive for a great fulfilling life, and bringing further trust by spreading the attitude that the highest organization is payed appropriately and help building pressure to sort it rightfully, which will result in both competitiveness and relaxing improvement.


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