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Middle East and a less dependent world....

In a future world, less dependent on oil, what do you see as the role of the Middle East in world economics and politics???
Some will say this future is far off, but remember oil has only become a major player in world energy in the last 100 years or less. Technology has served to give us cars, truck and even jets less dependent on oil based fuels, and we have over the last few years started to see battery powered vehicles appear on the market.
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The future of the Middle East is a very precarious one as far as I can make out. Everything to do with them seems at variance to how everyone else lives and thinks. Out of this variance is a growing hostility towards the whole place. Who knows where it will lead but they are on a conflicting head on collision course with the rest of the world and have been for a long time.
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The sooner we become independent of oil and all fossil fuels, the better for everyone. It is only oil that has given the Middle East so much power and negative influence. The greatest threat to mankind is climate change and that is driven by fossil fuels. The world will survive it but we won't.

Once we are no longer dependent, the Middle East will go back to being a bunch of Arabs who live in a desert. Without Saudi money, terrorism will have no funds and will disappear.
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Originally Posted by moreover ->
The sooner we become independent of oil and all fossil fuels, the better for everyone. It is only oil that has given the Middle East so much power and negative influence. The greatest threat to mankind is climate change and that is driven by fossil fuels. The world will survive it but we won't.

Once we are no longer dependent, the Middle East will go back to being a bunch of Arabs who live in a desert. Without Saudi money, terrorism will have no funds and will disappear.
Saudi Arabia is fully aware of a future change occurring with the drying up of the oil revenue, trouble is what are they going to do to make up for the shortfall? Here is one idea they have had, which makes me a little uncomfortable to say the least ...

Saudi Arabia hopes for religious tourism boost

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With Saudi Arabia's government announcing reforms aimed at moving the kingdom away from its dependence on oil, another source of income looks set to become a major contributor to the economy - religious tourism.
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I don't see a problem with that but am I missing something? Better interested parties go there and pig out on their stuff than they come here and blow ours up.
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I don't see a problem with that but am I missing something? Better interested parties go there and pig out on their stuff than they come here and blow ours up.
There lies the crux of the matter. The more time they devote to their studies the more they want to blow everyone and everything else up.
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It's not them coming here that's the problem, though, is it? It's the home grown ones, indoctrinated in British schools, who become terrorists.
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It's not them coming here that's the problem, though, is it? It's the home grown ones, indoctrinated in British schools, who become terrorists.
But, but, but - who do you think indoctrinates those that indoctrinate others?

If you follow the trail where does it lead you I wonder?

A lot of indoctrination is carried out online by the way.
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I believe that apart from oil, which will run out of course, the middle east has nothing to offer the rest of the world and I agree with others that when the oil runs out that part of the world will return to the desert.

I have worked in Saudi Arabia and am aware that all the money they have made from oil has been invested in things such as hospitals and healthcare, roads, housing and some very impressive buildings. The very extensive royal family is, of course, very rich as are many other Saudis. However, I cannot see anything (other than the oil) that they could profit from by exporting.

Originally Posted by MKJ ->
Saudi Arabia is fully aware of a future change occurring with the drying up of the oil revenue, trouble is what are they going to do to make up for the shortfall? Here is one idea they have had, which makes me a little uncomfortable to say the least ...

Saudi Arabia hopes for religious tourism boost
Of course, this is something that they can expect to attract foreign investment, but to me it is comparable only to Egypt's reliance on its historical artefacts for tourism, and look at the standing of Egypt on the world stage.

No, I'm sure the middle east will revert to what it was before the 20th century.
 

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