Statistic of the day: 225,000
225,000 is the size of the Bedouin population of Syria and Lebanon in 1924, as estimated by the French Haut Commissariat de la Republique Francaise (the HCRF, which is the French mandatory power in both Syria and Lebanon) in its 1930 report “Les tribus nomades et semi-nomades des Etats du Levant places sous Mandat Francais”. This number consisted of 125,000 nomadic individuals and 100,000 semi-nomadic ones, for a total combined Syrian and Lebanese population of 1.5 million. Now check out the graph below to follow the evolution of the Syrian population alone since 1960:
Our world can only perish because we breed like rabbits, how many people more can take earth until it will unleash real disasters upon us? I remember a Canadian lady on the Straightegyptians forum posting “one day planet earth will shake so hard to get all these people off his back”. Enjoy the good life, as long as it lasts …