Faced with the recent catastrophe that occurred in the neighboring Haitian town, everyone has been concerned about providing the assistance that the moment deserves, but no one has stopped to think about what future help should be offered to the Haitian people, to avoid that these telluric movements happen again, and if they happen, since they are unpredictable, cause the minimum possible damage.
I really agree and satisfied with the international collaboration, which in terms of material aid has been provided to the devastated Haitian people, positions that have managed to save the lives of children, the elderly, young people, women and men, that with the desire to continue living, they waited as long as it was, to be rescued.
As is known to all, the formerly lush and leafy Haitian lands have lost most of their forests and according to a United Nations report, the rate of cutting and burning of forests to become arable land or scrub increased during the 90s. Calculating that 70% of the Haitian population uses charcoal for cooking.
The Haitian forest reserves - according to the same study explains - that currently disappear at a rate of 15 to 20 million trees per year, which threatens to radically transform the country into the first desert area in the Caribbean. "In general, I believe that we are approaching a critical point where some regions of the country will not be able to recover," according to the criteria of Paul Paryski, an environment specialist with the UN Development Program.
These shocking data could be taken as a basis to explain the recent earthquakes that occurred in Haiti, since they are caused by the collision of tectonic plates, and as well as the release of energy in the course of a sudden reorganization of materials of the earth's crust when exceeding the state of mechanical equilibrium.
Different types of forests or forest lands in Haiti have been indiscriminately removed for the benefit of various human activities and the consequences of this deforestation are beginning to become noticeable in climate change that have caused these extreme geological movements, which today can already be blinded with irreparable damage.
Towards this reality, it is that the great nations - which today are committing to assist the impoverished Haitian people, beyond the recent earthquake - is that they must look, because nothing will be achieved, in rebuilding the Haitian nation, in terms; political, economic, social, legal and infrastructure, but it ends with the definitive deforestation of the small and long-suffering Caribbean island.
Apply a strict policy to reforest the Haitian island, together with a social strategy, to provide the nationals of that country with stoves and propane gas, so that they can cook their food, and thus stop the felling of trees for these purposes, are of the aid that the international community must give, so that the Haitian territory recovers, and these types of earthquakes do not occur with their terrible destructive capacity.
This reforestation process will gradually change the way in which the atmosphere of the Haitian territory heats up and cools, redistributing the water on the ground, and returning to the vegetation its property of absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide, as well as the local dissipation of heat. through perspiration, avoiding with this, the geological faults that produce the earthquakes, which have terrorized the devastated - several times - Haitian land.
Helping Haiti is a task that should be aimed at raising awareness among the Haitian people who have irrationally and inordinately misused the natural resources they possess, which with their degrading tasks contribute to the increase and magnification of natural phenomena, making it catastrophic.
