I was thinking some parties were making exaggerated promises to get people to vote until I heard what Sarkis Sarkis has in mind for the Bourj Hammoud Landfill, now I believe they’re quite modest and realistic. The man believes petroleum can be extracted from there.
It’s good to know that all the effort we have been putting over the past year in piling up the garbage on our streets and then disposing them in the most unhealthy landfills has finally paid off! According to Numbeo Lebanon is now ranked 3rd worldwide in their pollution index right behind Afghanistan and Ghana.
And it isn’t like we have been trailing way back in the previous years, back in 2013 we were ranked just 13th but we eventually did some serious work and almost made our way to the top.
photo via Al Jazeera
Update:
I didn’t notice this when I first shared the chart, but it’s worth noting that the figures are based on the perception of Numbeo website visitors and therefore the ranking is unreliable. Mustapha wrote about the whole thing on his blog and I recommend you check it out.
