Geology for Future Leaders of the World

Geology for Future Leaders of the World

Part Two

Geology for Future Leaders of the World

Part Two

First, I've to give the credit to hustle H. Fifield and G. Etzel Pearcy for their  book "Geopolitics in principle and practice" that was published in 1942, and translated in Arabic by Yousif Megalli and Louis Iskandar, and revised by
Dr. Mohamed, A. M. El-Sharkawi.

Geopolitics ward was created by a Swedish man Rudolf Kiellen, where he defined Geopolitics as "The study of politics of the country", (its Geography and politics), but the knowledge of each part separately is not enough, because the unity both is required for the sake of the country. 

Ultimately, the leader of the country should be familiar with politics and Geography of the country in the right time. 

However, since early 1960 Geology became the prime factor taking a decision. The leaders have choice, other than including Geological side, before taking any decision.

The question is why geology for leaders and or decision makers??

To answer this question we have to know: what is geology?

Geology in general is the scientific and technical study of the earth including its composition, structure, physical properties and history. As I mentioned before that since early 1960, geology became the prime factor taking a political decision or erections of a project as the most significant advances in 20^th century, geology have been the development of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s and where actual estimates of the planet age. As today the earth is known now to be approximately 4.65 billion years old. 

So unless the leader of his advisors are well informed by experts, the geological aspects of any project, believe that results will be on the negative side as matter of fact. It was noticed that the main problem of the undeveloped countries is the poorly informed political leaders who are the only decision makers, so these countries getting poorer.. without limits!!!???

Finally I would like to mention how the geological information could help avoiding war between countries. Such a war between Iraq n Kuwait, fighting for oil field at the neutral zone, another geological case is the Gaiarabub Oasis on Libyan land is the extension of Siwa Oasis of Egypt, where a top quality and quantities of fresh water of Cretaceous age are there. 

To be continued ………………….

By Dr. M. El-Gazzar