Where Can I Find Beastiality

A island, two peoples, two histories


Jared Diamond

By M. Dario CONTRERAS
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

C on this title biogeographer Jared Diamond, a professor at the University of California (UCLA) and award-winning writer for his book "Guns, Germs and Steel", winner Pulitzer Prize in 1998, appointed in chapter 11 of his most recent book "Collapse: Why societies remain and others disappear ", Editorial Debate, 2005. This chapter is subtitled "The Dominican Republic and Haiti and also compared these two companies have shared the island of English. Diamond uses us as living example to show how human actions can influence the development of peoples.

Our case is important because it compares like two people of the same small island have dealt with natural resources and environment, with results that are obvious: Haiti considered the poorest in the Americas and the Dominican Republic, according to the author, with a per capita income five times greater than that of Haiti and also with 40 years of electoral tradition, no military coups.

The main thesis of Diamond in Collapse is that people can not afford to not take seriously the environment in which they exist. And to prove his theory analyzes how diverse societies around the world have failed and / or disappeared, do not take the kinds of decisions, sometimes hard and difficult, which tend to conserve and manage habitat in a respectful and harmonious.

Examples abound of people failed, as the Norwegian colony in Greenland the disappearance of the inhabitants of Easter Island and the abandonment of Maya cities in Central America, among others. As a living laboratory takes samples from Greenland and the island by the coincidence of different societies in the same place and time. In Greenland, the Inuit have survived until today, while the Norwegian immigrants failed, and the Dominicans are in the path of development, while Haiti is standing by foreign aid and, in the opinion of many, no future.

Professor Diamond notes that while Haiti has only 1% of its forest area, the Dominican Republic has a 28% - In fact, according to latest figures from 2003 is 33%. We, according to Diamond, we have 74 protected areas and have strong national conservation organizations run by conscious.

The author, to illustrate how did these two nations differ both in economic, political and social, a brief historical account, noting that the French colony of Haiti was the most richest European colony in the New World, contributing a quarter of the wealth of France, ahead of its eastern neighbor in population, wealth and power, enabling it to attach Dominican portion of the island in 1844 and rule for 22 years. Haiti, however, had begun to decline following its bloody war of independence in their large sugar plantations suffered a serious setback with the disposal of their masters and atomization of these properties, in addition to cutting the racial struggles between leaders themselves Afro-Cubans. This did not stop our neighbor deal to invade on 6 separate occasions.

Haiti after its independence in 1804, virtually prevented the immigration of people with advanced ideas, given the constitutional principle that prevented those who were not of blacks to own property in that country. English Santo Domingo, however, encouraged the immigration of groups of Jewish immigrants from Curacao, canaries, Lebanese, Palestinians, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Germans, French and Italian, among others. It was precisely the Cuban exiles as a result of the first war of Cuban independence from 1868-78, who developed the modern Dominican sugar industry.

Professor Diamond, while recognizing the differences of character and environmental material between the two countries, including the geopolitical challenges facing Haiti as the first country of slaves who were emancipated, ascribed to the Dominicans have not closed off and never having taken a series of steps to protect their environment, giving the doctor Joaquín Balaguer credit for the courageous measures taken by the closure of sawmills and the militarization of control Forest in his first government in 1966, along with other measures taken by the governments since 1986, and close mills allowed to operate in the 1978-86 period and carry out military operations against illegal logging, removal of squatters in national parks - Haitises in 1992 - and the creation of protected areas and laws aimed at eliminating our dependence on trees for the construction Creole and cooking. Diamond I wish that other leaders have the guts to Balaguer.

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In conclusion, we must remind our readers that the fate of Haiti is closely tied to ours. The U.S. Census Bureau projected to exceed the Dominican Haitian population by 700,000 people in 2020, comprising a total of 23 million. Something to exercise thought and creativity of the Dominican recognized.

Today, Santo Domingo 01/28/2007

Guns, Germs and Steel . A book written by the author Jared Diamond originally in English in 1997. This is the progress of different societies in the world and tries to explain why some more advanced than others.
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10 of 1937) is an American author scientific literature, an evolutionary biologist, physiologist, and biogeography. He is known primarily for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs and Steel (Guns, Germs and Steel) (1997). He is also author of "Collapse . Why do some companies persist and others disappear?" (Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. 2004) .

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