16675: pparyski: Re: 16670: Laleau: reforestation (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: PPARYSKI@aol.com

There is an office full of reforestation plans for Haiti: UNDP, USAID, World
Bank, OAS, European Union, FAO.  All have good point; some are not so great,
e.g. the World Bank.  The greatest obstacles to reforestation are the crushing
poverty of the Haitian peasant which forces him destroy trees just to survive
and the total irrepsonsibility of the Haitian government (sic!) which
unfortunately is trully a collapsed state and kleptocracy.  Unitl these two problems
are at least partially resolved there is little hope for reforestation or
indeed for Haiti.

cheers Paul Paryski