Submitted by Tania (not verified) on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 00:26.
Dear Anonymous,
You said it yourself. "Why should this be considered a top priority when my country is barely keeping its head above water because of crooked politics..." Frankly, crooked politics and the many missteps of the Haitian government is not something that the comman man can control. It is simply beyond the grasp of the average person to tackle such problems as kidnappings or rape, but it only takes soil, a seed, and a shovel to plant a tree. It is an initiative that anyone, man or women, rich or poor,can take. Imagine if everyone in Haiti ( about 8,000,000 people) decided to plant a tree. Wouldn't that still be making difference, however meager it may seem? The environmental issues in Haiti should not be tossed aside because it only takes a small effort on our part to change the issue. Simply taking the time to put the garbage in the garbage cans is a start. There is no need to be in a political party to do that. I am not saying that the current political and economic situation in Haiti is one that should be ignored but I would rather put my energies on something that will actually progress, something I know will that slowly but surely alter the course on which Haiti is going environmentally. The trurh of the matter is that there will always be crooks in politics. Now, instead of focusing on problems that our Haitian government has been enable to resolve for decades, let us start with the small things. Plant a tree.
Dear Anonymous, You said it
Dear Anonymous,
You said it yourself. "Why should this be considered a top priority when my country is barely keeping its head above water because of crooked politics..." Frankly, crooked politics and the many missteps of the Haitian government is not something that the comman man can control. It is simply beyond the grasp of the average person to tackle such problems as kidnappings or rape, but it only takes soil, a seed, and a shovel to plant a tree. It is an initiative that anyone, man or women, rich or poor,can take. Imagine if everyone in Haiti ( about 8,000,000 people) decided to plant a tree. Wouldn't that still be making difference, however meager it may seem? The environmental issues in Haiti should not be tossed aside because it only takes a small effort on our part to change the issue. Simply taking the time to put the garbage in the garbage cans is a start. There is no need to be in a political party to do that. I am not saying that the current political and economic situation in Haiti is one that should be ignored but I would rather put my energies on something that will actually progress, something I know will that slowly but surely alter the course on which Haiti is going environmentally. The trurh of the matter is that there will always be crooks in politics. Now, instead of focusing on problems that our Haitian government has been enable to resolve for decades, let us start with the small things. Plant a tree.