Quote: (07-29-2018 09:10 AM)Beirut Wrote:
^ I have a hard time saying Lebanon is beautiful because it should be way more beautiful than it currently is. I go to Southern France and Italy and i see the same landscapes i see back home, and Lebanon has 3x the history. But there i see tiled rooftops, clean streets, urban planning, preservation of the character and here i see rubbish on badly paved streets, chaotic construction, polluted sea, deforested mountains, etc... Still you have a lot of beautiful spots but if we were not so idiotic we could have made this place a paradise.
Its quite heartbreaking. To me the Jounieh bay area for example could have been one of the most beautiful spots in the world.
Do you think there's any sorts of initiative or laws that could be set in place to bring back or add some layers of beauty? I've seen online that they're literally cutting away the mountains, which is opposite to where i'm going with this, but surely some law could be implemented that demands say, a certain amount of trees are planted and not cut down, perhaps in an effort to bolster tourism to areas outside of Beirut (just as a weak start). I think with the right people on board, especially people with links to tourism of some kind, there /could/ potentially be a regeneration of sorts. There's nothing I care about more in life than beauty, so this is probably going to be something I try and do something about, even if it's just planting 1 tree or adding some food colouring to certain parts of the sea. I definitely feel the country's in a position to get better and not worse. So why not start with beautifying places, under the guise of 'for the tourism potential.'