very informative article bro.

For the time being, Gulf Arabs are still resorting to deslalination of sea water to fresh water.

Naturally, this entire process requires great amount of energy.
It is interesting to know what would these countries do in the coming decade or two when their populations further increases from current levels and worth when their fossil fuels start to diminish.
As we can see Gulf Arabs and most North African states are living in an unsustainable path.

On the other hand, Lebanon is slightly in a better position than these countries, but as you mentioned it needs to build many new dams in order to satisfy the needs of the general populations.
My understanding is that, however, this would also be not enough from averting a major water crisis.
The core problem lies in the lack of water management. The activity of planning, developing, distributing, managing, and optimum use of water resources under defind water policies and regulations.
Management of Water must be divided into categories.
Management of water treatment of drinking water, sewage or wastewater.
Management of water resources.
Management of Irrigation.
Management of Water table.

Finally, Mr. Karam one thing is for certain is that water crisis deepens further Lebanon’s rural-urban rift. In addition, the massive migration to the cities and towns and rapid urbanization will only exaserbate even further the demand for water and polution.

Sebouh,
No matter what Lebanon does, if the population is not brought under control then all is for naught. Fresh water is a constant quantity while population so far is increasing. This by itself will assure less and less water availability per capita. And of course to build the dams and not adopt new irrigation techniques and efficient water distribution and waste treatment facilities will not accomplish much either. Actually excessive irrigation and improper land usage result in desertification and land salinity.

Mr. Karam,

Many years ago as we all know China adopted their famous 1 child policy to curb their growing population.

I think a similar policy must be implemented in the Middle East although the idea in itself might sound absurd but this is the only way to save the nations from overpopulation crisis.

Child quota must be reduced to 2 for all countries who are believed to be carrying over capacity this also includes Lebanon.

Sebouh,
In the physical world there are natural laws that cannot be violated without paying a price. Exceeding the carrying capacity of any system is such a case. If we fail to take measures to live within our carrying capacity then nature will take these measures for us and we will not like them a bit.

Sebouh you are right but you know how long will it take those illiterate people, also irrisponsible ones to understand this issue and use protection to avoid having excessive children that they can not take care and throw them on the streets to beg or sell Chiclets, I am with you any suggestions people on this site as to how to change things around. Thanks to Prof. Karam to expose our future dilemas, if only politicians that will take action and not blow hot air.

Rafic, This is an age old problem that so many have tried to deal with. I strongly believe that ultimately there is only one solution, the one introduced by Garret Hardin . He called his solution “mutual coercion mutually agreed upon” which simply means that every female gets coupons for two deliveries. She is free to use them or sell them to the highest bidder. At a first look this sounds very harsh but when you think about it then you find out that it is not any different from speed limits or banning smoking.

Any solution is good for me , as long as we don’t get a war solution that could kill , and force more of us to emigrate.

How would the water shortage factor play in any possible peace process with Israel?

Prof. Karam what happens if women do not abide by those rules and conceive more and more, here we are talking about some women or men beleive in jungle law, what is the consequences that they will face? What will stop them from conceiving.

I can’t believe you guys think China’s one child policy is a good thing?

Have any of you been to China and seen the suffering this has brought upon families?

Have you seen how many female newborns were litterally thrown out because most families only want boys.

Have you seen the suffering this has brought upon that nation?

I don’t think so.

The global depopulation plan has been written by the global elites decades ago, and now any excuse is made up to implement it.

Google “The Green agenda”, Google Bilderberg.

http://www.green-agenda.com/

Depopulation and trying to control what the entire global population is a religion of the 1st world elite.

The spoiled 1st world population who has everything and who want to take away everything from the already ravaged 3rd world.

Why don’t you think of creatinve modern ways to use our technology to provide water and other resources to the 3rd world and 2nd world nations that don’t have the luxuries you all use everyday, rather than concentrating on ways to prevent humanity from flourishing?

What gives you all the impression that you were given a special right to control how all of humanity lives and breeds? Is it your media, or your “education” system that gives you that right to tell a family not to have more children? Why do you think you are the decider of humanities fate?

Studying modern history will teach you that over 100 million people have been killed by wars since WW1 alone. Is this mass murder of civilian populations not enough to feed your elitist blood thirst?

The sad thing is that all of you who are led to believe you are special and you are not part of the depopulation agenda are wrong, you are not part of the global elite and you are all part of the masses that the elite want exterminated. No matter how special you feel, they don’t feel that way about you, so wake up and realixe that there is FREE HUMANITY and there is a corrupt GLOBAL ELITE that has always wanted to control FREE HUMANITY.

Which side are you going to be on?

May the all mighty help you.

http://preventdisease.com/news/10/081010_everything_is_a_lie.shtml

“The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
- Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations

Prophet, Water has already played a role in 1967 and will play a role on the Golan and on the West bank. Water scarcity with a growing population is a recipe for disaster especially if the population is to become better off materially. More food requires more irrigation and more domestic consumption.

Rafik,
It is for society to decide on the penalty. That is the meaning of the phrase “mutual coercion mutually agreed upon”. Example, you might not like to wear a helmet while on a motorcycle but society has decided that if you do not wear a helmet then you will be fined.
In a world with few home deliveries one can make it very difficult to obtain a hospital delivery or maybe even withhold free schooling. That is already done in Singapore. The idea is to make the potential parent aware of the tremendous cost associated with a new born.

Ghassan,
Thanks, I’m worried about the Litani River. We know Israel has water shortage too. I’m afraid we’ll see wars for water instead of wars for land. Maybe some would trade Land for water.

Fed up,
I have a feeling that I know who you are:-) but what is important is the total lacvk of consistency in your posts. Can you ever make up your mind. IUn your previous post you make fun of the efforts to limit population growth by speaking of a world conspiracy but in your second post you quote The Club of Rome who are essentially saying that all our environmental problems are brought about by excess population. So which is it that you are advocating?

Prophet,
Obviously I cannot speak for the Israelis but I think that they would be willing to settle for a comprehensive peace and import the water from Turkey. It is also important to remember that Israel is a world leader in efficient modern irrigation techniques and might be the only country in the world that has stopped , at least for the time being, desertification. I am not suggesting that they do not need water, of course they do but I think that their needs are slightly tempered by their better infrastructure and irrigation. I am counting on the fact that the Litani will stay totally in Lebanese hands. Many people in Lebanon do not appreciate the Litani but many geographers claim that the Litani to Lebanon is almost the same as the Nile is to Egypt.

Fed up I’m amazed. On the Borobudur temple built more than 1000 years ago there are Buddhist teachings telling the parents to hav 2 children in order to preserve wealth of the family and health of nature.
In the 1990ies the indonesian governement launched a … 2 child family campaign … wonder why!

Abou Daoud,
That is very interesting. I have to remember that.

Ghassan,

I think you missed the point of me quoting the Club of Rome.

It should be clear that I don’t agree with the quote.

The 2nd post is proving my first post’s point.

That there is an elitist club that has been planning global depopulation, I’m trying to show you how the plan is in place and they are creating any excuse to make the masses believe it.

I advise to read the green-agenda link I have posted.

Abou Daoud,

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not for a global government implementing global laws telling everyone how to reproduce.

The example you gave is excellent about the buddhist teachings, and it’s local government, local laws if they are accepted and made by an elected people, or accepted leaders.

Every law should be made by local governments that represent the will of the people.

I would urge you to answer your own question as to why indonesia implemented the laws now and not centuries ago, do you think it could have to do with pressure and funding and grants by the Global infrastructure that is already in place.

Ghassan,

First I want to thank you for your article, because you are addressing an imprtant issue. The earth and how we are not taking care of our planet.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree that we need to be better stewards of this place we call earth, this little planet we call home.

Most of us know that we are not taking good care of the planet and that rather we are destroying it.

So when we see groups calling for implementation of regulations and laws to protect the planet , we tend to get on board.

However as this link http://www.green-agenda.com/ explains

” You don’t have to dig very deep to discover the true beliefs of the influential leaders who are using genuine concerns about the environment to promote an agenda of fear and control. Please carefully consider the implications of the opinions that they so openly and freely express..”

And I quote:

“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy.”
- Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world.”
- Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
——————————–

Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time.
The Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution (1993)

Abou Daoud,

You mentioned the ancient Buddhist stone carvings being the reason Indonesia implemented the 2 child policy, maybe you are right but I think you will find it most likely that the powefull group who is behind the Georgia Guidestones is most likely responsible for Indonesia and most countries that are now considering these policies.

The Georgia Guidestones is a large granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. A message comprising ten guides is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient languages’ scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.

History
In June 1979, an unknown person or persons under the pseudonym R. C. Christian hired Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the structure.[3] One popular hypothesis is that the patron’s pseudonym may be a tribute to the legendary 17th-century founder of Rosicrucianism, Christian Rosenkreuz.[3]

[edit] Inscriptions
A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

More on the Georgia Guidestones:

On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the American Stonehenge. Though relatively unknown to most people, it is an important link to the Occult Hierarchy that dominates the world in which we live.
The origin of that strange monument is shrouded in mystery because no one knows the true identity of the man, or men, who commissioned its construction. All that is known for certain is that in June 1979, a well-dressed, articulate stranger visited the office of the Elberton Granite Finishing Company and announced that he wanted to build an edifice to transmit a message to mankind. He identified himself as R. C. Christian, but it soon became apparent that was not his real name. He said that he represented a group of men who wanted to offer direction to humanity, but to date, almost two decades later, no one knows who R. C. Christian really was, or the names of those he represented. Several things are apparent. The messages engraved on the Georgia Guidestones deal with four major fields: (1) Governance and the establishment of a world government, (2) Population and reproduction control, (3) The environment and man’s relationship to nature, and (4) Spirituality.

In the public library in Elberton, I found a book written by the man who called himself R.C. Christian. I discovered that the monument he commissioned had been erected in recognition of Thomas Paine and the occult philosophy he espoused. Indeed, the Georgia Guidestones are used for occult ceremonies and mystic celebrations to this very day. Tragically, only one religious leader in the area had the courage to speak out against the American Stonehenge, and he has recently relocated his ministry.

http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm

What is the true significance of the American Stonehenge, and why is its covert message important? Because it confirms the fact that there was a covert group intent on

(1) Dramatically reducing the population of the world.
(2) Promoting environmentalism.
(3) Establishing a world government.
(4) Promoting a new spirituality.

Fed Up,
I would not mind being part of a conspiracy to save the planet.
Don’t just make all sorts of accusations because you do not believe that what some are preaching is correct. If you feel that this beleagered planet can support an additional 7 billion people at the Western life style then just say so. In that case I will have to ask you to explain where the food, energy, water etc… are going to come from.
Get a fuish tank and put in it some fish. Pretty soon the number of fish that the fish tank can support will be reached . The same is true of th eearth. It has a carrying capacity and all signs point to the fact that this carrying capacity has been overshot.

Ghassan,

The point is even if we want to save the planet, so we want an unelected few that makes decision based on faulty science, and run by the major corporations?

For example, British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell are the main funders of the carbon tax scheme. Do you think they have the planets best interest in mind, or could they possibly be pushing a carbon tax to line their pockets?

Ohh I forgot to include in my example that criminal company Enron, and noble prize winner Al Gore who has been sued by 30 000 scientists who dispute his fraudulent evidence on “Global warming” ( now convinently changed to ” Climate change” ) , are the main pushers along with the major oil corporations are pushing for a carbon tax.

Do you think they do it because they care so much for the planet?

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&q=30000+scientists+against+global+warming&aq=0&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=30000+scientists+agai&gs_rfai=&fp=72381a018f4e0477

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=hp&q=30000+scientists+sue+al+gore&aq=0&aqi=g3g-m2&aql=&oq=30000+sci&gs_rfai=&fp=72381a018f4e0477

You don’t need to dig deep to find that out that the environmentalist movement has been hijacked.

I think everyone around the globe has now heard of the “Climate Gate” scandal.

For those who missed the most important fraudulent event in modern history, here’s the scoop:

November 2009, a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU, the UN’s main research institute on climate data) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet.

These email and files prove the climatologists involved commited conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims, harrasment of scientists who debated them and much more.

You can read the emails and files yourself, just google “Climate Gate”

Here’s a link or 2:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/

http://www.climategate.com/

So although we need to save our planet from destruction, we need to be careful in who we put in charge of doing that.

Do we want big corporations, and petroleum magnates and an unelected global government?

Or do we want a grassroots, lcal effort, undertaken by each nation and region, and acting upon the needs of each group of people around the globe?

Finally I want say to all of you that I respect your opinions, and I hope we can continue with this open debate, as it is an important topic.

Last thing I want to post is an example.

I will use the globe’s largest continent, Africa as the example, as i have spent over 10 years living there and I travel to many countries from east , South to West Africa on a yearly basis.

You see Africa is poverty and drought stricken, and most importantly, also worst of all, is de-industrialized for the most part.

Of course there are some cities in Africa that rival in technology even the most advanced western city, however for the most part it is de-industrialized.

What this means is that there are countless villages that have access to water, but that water is filthy and not potable, nor usable for farming.

This causes the surrounding villages to live in starvation, thirst and poverty ( because they cannot grow food nor sell it.)

A small shipment of solar panels and wind turbines, combined with the most basic ( and inexpensive ) water filtration plant, can within weeks change a starving village into a thriving village.

So where there was too many people fighting for a small amont of filtered water and food, modern technology, and human igenuity has transformed into a village where there is more than enough for everyone.

One can easily say “well that village is overpopulated” and “there are not enough resources for those overproducing Africans”, or one can use one’s mind, heart and resources to make a change for the better and help our fellow human.

Unfortunately Africa, as an example, has not been permitted the change to industrialize, and now it’s so even in the name of “environmentalism”. The excuse is presented that if Africa industrialized, it would pollute the planet.

This logic is backwards if you think about it.

Ghassan said:

“Fed Up,
I would not mind being part of a conspiracy to save the planet.
Don’t just make all sorts of accusations because you do not believe that what some are preaching is correct. If you feel that this beleagered planet can support an additional 7 billion people at the Western life style then just say so. In that case I will have to ask you to explain where the food, energy, water etc… are going to come from.
Get a fuish tank and put in it some fish. Pretty soon the number of fish that the fish tank can support will be reached . The same is true of th eearth. It has a carrying capacity and all signs point to the fact that this carrying capacity has been overshot.”

Ghassan, although I appreciate your response, I would urge you to read my posts. I have not said there is a conspiracy to save the planet, the conspiracy is in plain view, and it is in their own words that a small group of corporate leaders have planned to control a monopoly over the planet’s resources. They have clearly themselves stated that they have decide to use fear mongering and making humanity the enemy in order for the global population to hand over control of it’s resources to them, all inthe name of environmentalism. At the same time many of these leaders are Eugenecists and believe that culling the global population, like a culling of a herd of sheep is the way to keep a racially clean population.

Unfortunately it’s all too real,all conspiracy fact rather than theory. Lets look at which countries are war, and famine ravaged, it’s certainely not the Anglo-American countries where these elites reside now is it?

Bachir,
Your capacity to twist things and to subscribe to conspiracy theories is nothing short of astounding.
Africa is the poorest of the continents on a per capita basis using practically any metric that you can think of and yet its population is growing at the fastest rate of any other continenet. African cannot feed itself, provide jobs for its population, provide health care , social security, clean water, access to education, … and the last thing that it needs is more people since that can only mean more misery, more hunger, more malnutrition, more wars, more desrtification…
Any organization that can play a role in reducing the fertility rate in Africa will be doing evryone a favour. Actually it is the moral duty not to give birth to children when the means of providing them with the basics of life are not assured.
All the organizations that you like to portray as evil are nothing except humanitarian organizations that are trying to accomplish some good in the world. Unfortunately no organization has succeeded since the world is still growing by adding over 60 million new mouths to feed every year.
The idea for birth control is not new. It goes back at least to Malthus who showed convincingly that if population is to grow at a geometric rate then it will outstrip our capacity to grow food or take care of the bulging populations.

As to the idea of Al Gore , you seem again so obsessed with the notion of an international conspiracy that you loose the ability to think rationally. Why would oil companies be interested in promoting a carbon tax? Don’t make absurd statements. Another point that you sem to misunderstand is the term climate change and global warming. Climate change is a better scientific description of global warming. Global warming is a phenomenon that is not open to discussion by anyone. It is a scientific idea. All what it means is that as the sun rays travel to the earth then some will be captured . That is what happens in greenhouses and in cars sitting in the sun. The greater is the CO@ in the atmosphere then the more we capture of the heat. As more is captured then the effect is to play havoc with climate patterns all over the globe. So stop these silly attempts of assigning weird explanations and using pseadoscience. If you have a disagreement with the efforts to control the rate of growth of population then just say so and present evidence why more people are better to a state than less people but for heavens sake do make the silly claims that a group of four is plotting to control the world. At times I wish that there is such a group
If you don’t believe in climate change then say so and offer an explanation to what is the outcome of doubling the concentration of CO2 but don’t say that oil companies are interested in carbon tax when they are the ones that fight it tooth and nail.
If the conspiracies that you keep talking about are so powerful and so pervassive then how come that they have not achieved any of their goals? Have you noticed that every single topic ever mentioned whether it is population, food, water, wars, sovereign debt, industrialization … you mange to find a conspiracy. Do you ever wonder why is it that very few people if any subscribe to these conspiracies of yours?

May I take this oppertunity to update that:
1. Israel does not need any morethe litani water or turkey water.
2. Israel has built 5 deslalination projects and full water independence is planned to 2013. the energy comes from natural gas turbines.
3.very strict water ration by price.
4.giving tap limiters devices to every house to save 10%

I wish that you will do the same.drill to find gas , finance the deslalination, and thats it

ZVI, really?
First thank you for acknowledging that “Israel does not need any morethe litani water or turkey water.” stress on the key words does not need anymore” so it did need it at one point which does constitute a true threat to lebanon.

Now to answer your post, Israel is trying to find water resources and is focusing on supply and not demand.
Indeed, the ever growing israeli population, the expansion of israeli illegal settlements and the invitations that israel extends to jews who have nothing to do with the land of israel, to come and live there, well, very simply, increase hugely the demand for water.

and according to the israeli foreign ministry website, the supply will always outshort the demand even well into 2020 and beyond.

http://www.newvoices.org/opinion?id=0125