David Levavi
2009-02-25 18:14:53
The Arabs are a backward and barbarous people grown fat on profits from petroleum which the civilized world needs to feed its internal combustion engines.
But the Arabs have become arrogant and dangerous and the civilized world is determined break its dependence on petroleum. The internal combustion engine–a fully matured technology fifty years ago ago–is slated for obsolescence.
I won’t see it in my day but I have every confidence that my children will live to see the sandblown ghost-towns of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Tall, elegant, modern structures designed by leading architects from around the world without running water or electricity. Abandoned sand-castles being slowly reclaimed by the desert.
