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That is where the rubber meets the road. Haitian peasants may not be
thinking for themselves but someone should; if not directly for the peasants but
for Haiti as a whole. I have met many Dominicans in NYC and have found that
they are not closer to Albert Einstein than most Haitians are and yet DR
has forests, protected trees and everything else that a good
environmentally sound country should have. That country just next door made the timely
transition from cutting down trees for energy to other sound methods ofproviding its population with affordable energy sources. Why can't Haiti do the
same in a timely and orderly fashion? You hear more reasons why the sametransition can't be done in Haiti versus why and how that can be achieved:from peasants do not have money for other sources of energy to Haitians do
not like the taste of food unless it is cooked with charcoal.

Ah, democracy! the process of electing your political representatives. Whoneeds that when your population at large is mostly uneducated. When voters
have to be told "just make a cross on the coq image"; where voters vote byjumping into swimming pools, no one will be doing any rational thinking,
nor be forced to do any thinking at all, about alternative energy sources anytime soon.

Haiti bought the idea of democracy mainly from the US. One man, one vote.
What a fiasco! If only the US had sold Haiti the same democracy that it
uses, the one influenced and designed by Alexander Hamilton who had theclairvoyance and fortitude to come up with the electoral college thing.

If a cultural trait is like a boa constrictor pet that can kill you, you
need to not keep it as a pet and/or kill it before it escapes and kills you.==============
"But in the peasant culture in Haiti (there is probably a proverb for
this)
there is nothing but the present--tomorrow's LIFE is not a guarantee, so
the
little problem of the availability of trees for the long run is not even
in the
thought process. And money is harder to come by than wood."

Deb Stockdale