How Lebanon Ran Out of Electricity 

I felt it when the man said that he imagines HELL being more merciful than here... My goodness

So sad to see this. Especially since my home country Sri Lanka going thru the same crisis and currently behind Lebanon by around 4-6 months. Unbelievable what a bunch of stupid corrupt politicians can do to a country.

We used to live in Lebanon and we moved out in 2018, right before the economic crisis started. My cousin just graduated school and she’s gonna come live with us in another country to go to college, since it’s become almost $20k per year to go to uni there. Luckily, my family’s town invested in renewables, but I’m sorry for most people living in Beirut and other cities.

Makes me so angry 😠 😡. So done with these criminal politicians

in yemen the electricity cut off since 6 years ago 😁 we adopted to that and most houses now are using solar systems , and everything is going well ..

Heartwrenching to see my mothers homeland suffer

I need to add one more thing. Get two terracotta pots one large and one small, sand, rocks and white cloths. Place the small terracotta pot inside the large one making sure that there is space for the sand between the two pots. Fill the space with sand and place the rocks on top of the sand. Place the food inside the small pot (you may need several large and small pots, sand and rocks according to how much food that needs to be refrigerated by these pots.) fill the space between the two pots with water. Then, cover both pots with the wet cloths. This method is another form of refrigeration for when the electricity goes out or you simply don't have a refrigerator.

Has Lebanon consulted with other Middle Eastern countries about implementing solar power, a better electric grid supply and what is being done about it? The structure of the buildings needs to be rebuilt according to the natural lighting of the sunrises and sunsets. Bigger and more windows means more natural light flowing thru the homes and apartments which help saves on electricity.

Yet some people are complaining for not getting a Gucci bag for their BD .. Ironic

Lebanon is such a beautiful country

This is what corruption can do to a country.it doesn’t matter how much educated your population is,if you donot remove the corrupt today.it will come and destroy you sooner and later.we in pakistan have realised it now after seeing this.we even more strongly support imran khan against the corrupt in our government.

😔 if it is possible lawn solar lights may help a little, as a stop gap. i pray that things get better.

heartbreaking

Man, I feel for these people. I didn't do anything to be born into a country with electricity, and they didn't do anything to not be born in one.

my heart broke when he said people can't buy even candles -- i'm a candlemaker

So much suffering in the world, and hunger is only getting worse. Prayers for our planet. May people be freed from corruption, greed and incompetence in leadership, and power hungry men who wage war on the bread basket of the world.

I am from Azerbaijan, i am really sorry that Lebanon where has charming natural beauty and long civil history, economically has decayed

Poor people are good at one thing: have more children they can’t afford and bring more misery to an already miserable world.

The world leaders has invested so much into bringing the world down to its' knees. My God why can't we just do better? "I know why, the wrong nations are ruling now!"

And the crazy thig about all of this is that Lebanon is one of the most highly educated countries in the world. And if you look at all the European cars, & quite recent apartment towers in the various footage, Beirut was one of the most middle class & cosmopolitan cities in the middle east, outside of Israel. The problem is that the government, since the end of the civil war, was made up of the same sectarian elites behind each religious group that was behind the civil war in the first place. And they built an economy based upon a gigantic banking Ponzi scheme, entirely reliant on imports, rather than one with any manufacturing sector or meaningful primary or resource sector at all. Where Lebanon built a huge financial sector based on bringing in cash from both the surrounding countries, & from the wide international Lebanese diaspora, from Aus, US, UK etc. Attracting their money via above market & unsustainable interest rates. And part of the mechanism of pegging the Lebanese pound to the US dollar relied on this system continuing uninterrupted. It worked for 30 years or so, & Beirut had a large & educated middle class, much of it dependent on the financial industry, & a world famous nightlife with many nightclubs that regularly had international DJs of all genres playing at them. This nightlife was part of the tourist appeal, along with the weather, the environment, the culture & the history. But behind all this was alot of corruption, creating alot of underlying problems & discontent, which came to a head with the revolution protests. This affected the image of stability of the Lebanese banks. Then Covid decimated tourism, decimating a large attractor of foreign currency that was a major component necessary to keep the banks afloat & the Ponzi sustainable, & pay for imports. Then the banks started loosing inflows of money both from tourism, then from the many external bank depositors. Then the explosion at the port, a result of corruption & incompetence of the ruling elite, decimated the only major port, the countries biggest grain storage, destroying a huge percentage of its grain reserves, & it destroyed many of its neighbourhoods, & many of its buildings, including those new & glittering apartment skyscrapers. This destroyed sentiment in Lebanon being both a safe place for many to live, so many young & educated that were able to started leaving. And as well as safe place to store money, that image was destroyed in an instant. So external depositors withdrew their money until they couldn't, the flow of new foreign money stopped. The Ponzi was revealed to be a Ponzi & immediately collapsed, collapsing the banking system with it. And the Lebanese pound lost its peg to the US Dollar. With the entire banking system collapsing systemically. And the Lebanese pound lost 90% of its value in a quick space of time. Of course the countries sectarian elite & corrupt who were behind this problem in the first place, pulled their money out before the collapse. And then the hyper inflationary spiral began.. Couple all this with rising global inflation, particularly in developing countries, and its easy to see how a highly educated middle class society can collapse into absolute deprivation in a quick space of time. I'm a New Zealander, used to live in Melbourne for 7 years pre covid, & I've worked with many Lebanese in construction, as there is a large Lebanese population in Melbourne & Sydney, so much so that at one point Australian Lebanese introduced Rugby League from Australia to Lebanon, & formed a Lebanese Rugby League team, based in Beirut, that i believe played in the Rugby League world cup, & didn't do too badly. i lived in a gentrifying inner city suburb with a large Lebanese population & many Lebanese restaurants & cafes. They are some of the nicest people I've come across. And i had friends who had been to Beirut before its collapse. Beirut was a place with many people that loved to party & entertain, an oasis of music & entertainment in an otherwise deeply conservative middle east. At one time I even wanted to go there, if i ever made it to that part of the world. It's so sad to see such a cool place fall mostly to the corruption & incompetence of a parasitic elite, & a whole lot of bad luck. I don't have much optimism for the next few years for any of the world to be honest, we are all going to see major inflation, recession, struggle, loss of value of investments, savings & superannuation, & a continued & intensified transfer of wealth to a technocratic parasitic elite. But i hope that the people of Lebanon can come out of this with if not a country fully intact, at least their spirits united through struggle & love for their land & people, & unite as one to rebuild their country anew, better & more united, free of the sectarian elites that led their country to this point of collapse in the first place.

Pray for people lebanon. From Jakarta-indonesia👍🇲🇨

And then we in South Africa think that we have it bad with our load shedding situation here. I won't complain anymore

The piece references the pre-2019 exchange rate for the Lebanese pound and than the current black market rate. It states that people are still paid at the earlier rate. Is this because the Lebanese government is refusing to admit that there has been inflation & is trying (from the sound of it, unsuccessfully) to use price and wage controls to keep the Lebanese pound stable?

Them: No money, no hope Them: Let's make babies

It happens in Nigeria alot, more like 2 hours a week in Nigeria so they are currently doing a lot better than Nigerians

"Government provided electricity". A phrase that's coming closer is America.

Damn and I thought Pakistan was bad…we get at least 12 hours of electricity a day.

$22 a month as a perspective of inflation made me flinch. Geez

Sad to see that Lebanon has degenerated due to its sectarian politics and corruption. Things were not this bad even during the civil war. Pakistan is facing a similar situation. Its just a matter of time .

This is going to be worst.. better start to brace yourselves. This is not just in Lebanon.

thank God AJ didn't blame Israel for this 💀

Hello, can anyone please let me know if there are power outages in 2023? Is the internet also stable? Thank you

Very sad indeed. There is no ending to these people s suffering 😢😢😢😢

1:17 : HEARTBREAKING 💔🥺

My country 💔💔most of the summer I had few hours of electricity, the situation in my country is getting worse and my people are paying the consequences💔💔😓😓😭

It just too sad to see my country die 😢 hope it gets better here :(

The Lebannon government subsidised petrol!!!! In most European countries,the government places a 80% tax on petrol!

Two things the Lebanese should do as a high priority (if they still can) : 1. Install a solar off grid system 2. Become Lebanese instead of Shia, Christian, Suni , Druze or whatever! If you don’t do the first (again, provided that you can) you’ll keep suffering. If you don’t do the second, there’s 0 hope for Lebanon! Much love and respect from Greece! Hope Lebanon will get back up on its feet and keep peaceful!

And I presumed the politicians, ministers etc still receiving their salary monthly without failed. What they’ve been doing?

I remember this happened to me one time in lebanon i was born there it happened for 3 days it felt like he'll I can't believe how this must of felt

Thanks for Rajapaksa cult regime family, Sri Lanka also face as Lebanon now

May the creator god 🙏 take care of those corrupt politicians, bring ☮️ ✌️ to Lebanon and her people God bless 🙏 them all.

I feel like it was 50 years ago in my country when my country still had electricity run out

The financial issue only exposed the cracks. That were already there in Lebanon. I mean, look at the wiring. This is what happens, when Smart People are in short supply.

This is horrible , my heart goes out to the Lebanese people .

Switch most of your country’s engines to run off hydrogen gas made from water metal rods plates electricity from batteries use led lights use portable inverter generators use led solar power lights with battery backup that use the sun to charge during the day and battery at night so many options available

Lebanon close to my heart as my grandfather emigrated from there after WW11 but it's the same in South Africa today. Poor corrupt governance behind it all.

How do i even donate and help the food crisis in Lebanon. Ive only seen save the children have something set up but i don't trust that organization. What can be done to help with wheat production

Sounds like hell on earth … what a life.

​DRUGS. CRIMINALS, GANGS AND TRAFFICKING IS THE PROBLEM , NOT GUNS

Same here in srilanka,somewhat better than Lebanon but he have huge fuel crisis

Eating Dinner with you,by Candlelight, in America. Gas prices and inflation are making us choose between gas or essentials like bills and our economic margins were too razor thin we were swept under as well. Hopefully things will get better... For the sake of Mankind

How or Why Lebanon ran out of electricity ask the right questions people!!!

No one in their right mind would bring a child into this world when they can barely feed themselves. Not sure what she was thinking when she decide to have a second child in such a crisis.

omg this is reminds me of right now living in Iraq , we have the same 2 electricity (government and private generator ) and from what I see soon we will live in same conditions as Lebanon

And yet she is having babies now. strange.

My father was so fed up of paying electricity bills that he bought solar panels and to be honest its alot more worth it

I dont know much about Lebanon, but, the weather seems to be cold even during June! That is a bit surprising.

Where did all the money go?

I've got a brilliant idea get some lanterns and candles and place them in and around the house. that is literally what we have been doing since forever before electricity.

Windows, solar options, and more options need to be given to the people. I'm so sorry they have to deal with these issues, and the world 🌎 seems to not care...

Convert your generators to run off water electrolysis turn water to hydrogen gas

5 years ago lebanon is stepping in the philippines since it has a better economics standing. it seems the tide change now....

الله يكون في عون لبنان

Nadia made good use of the darkness

Wow

I didn't even know this was going on. I'm so sorry for all the countries mine is making suffer 😭😭

Lebanon needs a change things are possible going to get worse...I hope that they can sort it out...love is the key...

Very sad what is happening in this world. I don’t understand how such governments can see their citizens suffer in this manner and not even care to move and support build their country. Lebanese people need to act quickly to stop this corruption and mess. If you continue to be quiet, you will continue to suffer. It is your choice!!!

Feel sorry for the people

Sorry but i feel like you didn't shed light on the actual crsis but explained the inflation's effect on the electric crisis. In terms of governmental electricity in lebanon the lebanese people pay 2020 bills now when we are in 2022. Two there have been multiple projects that have been funded by foreign countries that certain memebers of the government have stole. Three you didnt mention the electric "ships". Four the Chinese and irani projects that the goverment refused because parties fought over how to split the profits in other terms who gets to steal them. Five you didn't mention the private electric generators in zahle that now have 24/7 electricity and that they were more than ready to give 24/7 electricity to the rest of the region but the goverment refused becuase of certain parties. other private electric plants tried to scare them off by shooting daily at the 24/7 plant in zahle but to no avail. Im sorry but the title of this video compared to the content fell short in terms of shedding light and enlightening those of which dont know about the lebanese electric crisis. That's my opinion but much respect to you and your work.

i remember my parents in the 60s going to lebanon for the extravaganza night entertainment, and then God help them today lebanon looks like a third world country with people who have western life style . I am feeling sorry for the kind people of Lebanon

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for the few saw not of his brother but what was in his hand , , ,

Oh my God Venezuela Cuba Lebanon Sri Lanka is there more?

But they keep having kids? Why? You can’t even take care of yourself and this has been going on since the 1990s

Europe countries are going to be in the same situation because of energy crisis.

So Allah does not light up the room with a quran? Who would have guessed.

No power I expect will be the norm for most soon

I'm suprised she didn't blame Israel.

we are going through the same situation right now in Pakistan. the electricity and fuel prices are way out of bar for a common man's wage and with rising inflation and greediness of the current government, its almost impossible to work in a developing nation. barely 8 hours of electricity and asking money from other countries is just adding to our debts. although people do manage stuff using solar panels and UPS but i feel so bad for the poor as they have no way around and have to face dumb decisions of the politicians.

This is what happens wen u think ur job is just to earn and pay ur bills. Those who forget that their nation is their home and citizens their family, this happens

urban efecting 10 years ahead before no urban areas whole around the world

I feel sorry 😞

How do they survive without AC? I’m in Texas and I’d literally die without it.

Why can't they go solar

90$$ a month!?!?

Very sad to see state of Lebanon 🇱🇧

Looks exploitation problem.

the root cause ?

I mean it's true

I blame the people...there is 1 or 2k politicians there and the same number of mafia..the rest are people.If people rise up and make kebab out of those politicians,situation would change in a year...but if they tolerate this im also okay with it. Too much tolerance is a signature of a nation dying out.

6:56 Why do they have to rely on generators? My country has not used diesel generators for years. For some reason, Lebanon's electric company didn't go to other sources of electricity. Which is the reason for their current dilemma.

There is a lot of inefficient things happen in their way of life. 1. If you poor never use car as your main transport. Sell your car, buy motorcycle and bicycle. Motorcycle is up to 10x less operational and maintenance cost. Yes its 10x. 2. Dont use car taxi everyday, buy motorcycle or use motorcycle taxi 3. Who the heck run their country electricity with diesel? Its very expensive. Use coal power plant instead. Lebanon goverment should make it.

And she's pregnant, why on earth would you bring an other human being into this suffering? Irresponsible humans, no wonder why the country is going bust.

This is what they have planned for YOU! I type this as they're patching one of the MAIN street in my town where I blew out my tire. We pay the highest taxes but get no new roads in bankrupt IL!

Is Lebanon next on the hit list ? Always wanted to go one day, will it have to wait?

Ya-Allha Plz Save🤲🏾 Each & Everyone From Criminal Politician's

its funny how they thought they were better than brown and black people when i grew up in dubai, because of hteir lighter complexion. but now i live in the US, what are they known for here? Mia Khalifa. Meanwhile us South Asians have a vice president. Leba teezy cheap teezy

The enemies of humanity make me so angry !!!! Many governments in this world is no better than criminals !!!!