Only a few really recycle. Rubbish piled high in the streets of beirut after lebanons largest waste dump closed in 2015. It was already groaning under 15 million tons of excess trash. Thousands took to the streets to protest against the situation. Has anything changed since then . Repoporter the bebeaches in e lebanese c capital beirurut coue beautiful. But the realitisis they oftften half burieied under garbrbage. So thehese young peoeople ae getting ready to transform their local beach. Theyre taking part in a campaign called run and clean. Its the brainchild of eddy bitar and his ngo live love beirut. The group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter. The events draw up to 200 people. Many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. Eddy this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago. We see that people are more and more concerned witith all the problems facing the environmnmt in l
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Is saying that the president is using technology . Matt there are a couple of thoughts. What hes described is how residents figure out the bully one of the things that were trying to figure out many of you are familiar with mybarack obama. Com. I think that theres a promise in that idea and i think you saw it in the Dean Campaign using meetup and youve seen these different moments of people trying to use the internet. Theres a product there that hasnt been realized. And what i think it is is the opportunity for more bottomup selforganization that can plug into something formal and somewhat centralized and topdown. You kind of have to have both of those. And for a long time now, our media, mass media has really been very centralized and has tapped into a model in which candidates and nonprofits raise a bunch of money and do a lot of direct markets to mobilize people who really dont want to hear the message and try to nudge them to give that one dollar because of guilt or whatever. And a
Responsiveness of those reps. Did they hear what you said, and did it zphount a lot of that comes down to incentives. I talked to a lot of elected officials and who spent a lot of times fund raising a ton of time talking to Interest Groups that represent a lot of money and or votes in their district and have a lot less time to think about how to engage in a wider audience and theyre not that incentivized to do so. Part of what we are hoping to do is aggregate votes and voters, in a way, and constituents, so their opinions are tied to their identity as someone who votes and ken incentivize elected officials to spend more time. Theyre spending a lot of time figuring out how to get the money. If you could get them directly connected to a group of voters who care about something, it would be well incentivized to spend time. But i think it is an unsolved problem at this point, and there are some good people working on it. Thanks. Thank you. Next question. Hi, my name is shayna. Me, the flip