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To: PJ-Comix

Good travelogue. No meeting with Hugo?


5 posted on 12/29/2011 10:24:39 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: luvbach1
As I stated in my first travelogue, the most shocking thing so far on this trip is the almost complete deforestation of the mountains of Haiti. While flying over them I didn´t see a trace of green. Just bare soil. Here is a web DESCRIPTION of the devastation:

Today more than 95% of Haiti's forests are gone, fertile soils and farmlands have been destroyed and the mountains are now reduced to bedrock. The situation will continue to get worse as long as charcoal and low productivity agriculture are the only opportunities for poor farmers.

7 posted on 12/29/2011 10:53:24 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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