vegetaleb wroteAs you must know, Beirut is the most polluted city in the world of 2016, meaning not only weird warm weather in Autumn and winter but also and most importantly an increase of cancer cases.
No, no, no, no, please do not provide info on your own account.
1) Beirut is NOT the most polluted city in the world of 2016. That honor still goes to major cities such as Zabol (Iran), Gwalior (India), Allahabad (India), and even Riaydh (Saudia Arabia). And this is coming from the WHO index and reliable resources such as Washington post. Yes the WHO index may not be the best measure for toxicity, but please don't try to tell me that itsy, bitsy Beirut is more polluted than Delhi or Beijing.
2) Warm weather is not due to Beirut's level of air pollution, but global warming which, as the word signifies, is a world-wide effort.
3) Cancer cases? No, most cancer cases registered are either liver, thyroid, or corpus uteri for female patients or liver and prostate for male patients. You can thank that to the increased level of smoking especially for women. And you can see the published source for that
here.
vegetaleb wroteThere was a plan to introduce ''green'' mazout or Diesel to Lebanon to replace the killing mazout that we breath everyday, but weirdly enough this project disappeared totally!
So do most public efforts for improvement of health plans. Funds get.... "re-shifted". But what else do you expect from a country where corruption supersedes all?
vegetaleb wroteHow the heck can we move things so we can finally use European norms of diesel instead of the 19th century mazout and not die of cancer?
Use public transportation and decrease the consumption rate of diesel. Don't use a backup generator when electricity cuts off. Doesn't seem too easy now, does it? If you want everyone to go "green", you should lead by example. So, what plans have you made to go green? We installed solar panels at the hospital where I work so we can reduce the consumption rate of diesel for our backup generators. I use only public transportation to go about my work (which is saying something considering my job requires me to go about all areas in Lebanon, from Nakoura to Akkar, and way inside Bekaa area). We don't have ishtirak or a back-up generator at home, but we do have a backup APS. We recycle too, both at work and at home. Doesn't matter how much effort you put in if you don't have everyone pitching in.