Re: [Pen-l] Goodbye Dubai

[soula avramidis <soulaavramidis2002@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also this written a couple of years back:

 

The oil rush will prove somewhat similar to the Klondike gold rush. Whole cities in the Gulf, construed with little concern for energy conservation and local environmental conditions, could become ghost towns with the expiry of oil. Meanwhile however, much has changed since the first oil boom. With the current oil boom as well, the international interest in regional oil has intensified, the regional open conflicts have increased and many of the national authoritarian regimes further concentrated power with sons following in the footsteps of their fathers. Oil rents, it may be recalled, have already lead to a sort idle and lethargic mode of existence and did not only lower productivity, they also revamped old ways of life deepening parasitic mores with the spiritual fatalism attendant on it, all too self evident in the rise of Salafi Islam. The institutional setup reflected the rising tide of patriarchy further divorcing the broader public from participation in the way national decisions affecting their lives are made. The Arab people hold now less control over their own destiny.

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