Israel made the desert bloom, planted forests, desalinated water and redirected it where it would do the most good. This despite pogroms, terror, a feckless British colonial power that did all it could to block refugees from Europe. But we had lots of practice thriving under adversity, and a culture and religion that honors and encourages study and thought.
The Haitians were forcibly imported from a prehistoric environment to enslavement and oppression. They had none of that. But somehow, despite the crushing debt and cultural backwardness, they invaded DR and occupied it for forty years. Destructiveness, driving off the French, conquering DR, doesn’t take much smarts. Building and cultivating, however, does.
“Israel made the desert bloom, planted forests, desalinated water and redirected it where it would do the most good”
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With the trillions we’ve given Israel, I could level a few mountain ranges and plant daisies on the prairie thus leveled.
Haitians are just too impatient to do that, even though it could be done. The Haitian government may have to make it a death penalty offense to kill a tree for the first few years, but it can be done and quicker than we think.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/12-000-tons-of-orange-peels-bring-a-jungle-back-to-life