OH MY, OH GEEZ... HERE WE GO AGAIN.
The Thinking Of Hispaniola's Far Right Extremists.
By Wilgëens "AfroLatino" Rosenberg
Granted, deforestation poses a great threat to the Island ecosystem in whole. However, much of the blame is to be placed on the allowance of many authorities in both the Dominican and the Haitian Republic which of whom have not made the alternatives such as propane among other means available enough to their citizens. As many of you may argue by going back and forth with all kinds of discriminatory resentful remarks all you may. As often it is the truth that without any doubts, many of you also will engage in all sorts of derogatory campaigns placing blames over one Nation to the next which cohabit the Island of Hispaniola without ever come up with anything productive as a great approach or solution to solve the problem.
Directly or indirectly, it is not that hope for peace is slim, but rather because many of you on here may never be able to manage to remain impartial given your extremist defaming condescending views of one nation and of the other. Some of you will stop at nothing in making sure to go the extra length to express their radical anti-semitic sentiments toward the other which is why often no constructive points have never been able to be made and proven with both sides being rejection-able to accept any actual presented solid facts on anything which the other may provide. In fact, given the complexity and the history of the relation between the two Nations of one another, it is apparent that many may simply not be able to not being subjective. Thus, the constant hatred and constant circular verbal masturbation continue as we exacerbate any possibility for resolved peace between the two nations and people to flourish and it is a darn shame.
Nonetheless, one person was able to overcome all of that and gave an opinion on the matter. Very few times had anyone on here had given objective views regarding any issues or matters pertaining to both of the interrelated sovereign nations occupying the Island of Hispaniola which have not been disrespectful. One of those few times, you can always count on one person to be the exception from all throat tearing and nation degrading... Take Lautaro for example, a knowledgeable Dominican on here had stated and I quote him:
"Our authorities are letting this to happen on their watch. A statistical figure that will tend to rise, especially now that the DR government have dismantled the subsidy to the purchase of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) by the lower classes... the only thing that prevented the campesinos from this side of the fence from copying their brethen of the western part on the cutting of trees (although, to be honest with you, I have to recognize that the food cooked with charcoal tend to taste better than the one cooked normally by LPG, specially the coffee and cocoa). That atrocious measure was "proposed" (as in ordered) by the IMF because as in tune with the hipocrisy of developed nations. They're allergic to the development of social programs by goverments of developing countries. I wonder what would the defenders of free market capitalism "american style" on this site say about this." That is indeed a fact, but the point is, as much as Haiti is given much of the apparent blame on this issue given its lower economical status and apparent governmental mismanagements that have caused most of its jobless citizens to rely on this practice to survive and the images are quite compelling... but given the partial and bias aspects of double standard coverage and total negative reportage on the issue, many have also managed to ignore into taking in accountability that in the Dominican Republic itself, charcoal ovens and tree cutting landscape areas are being provided to Haitian laborers which are indeed locating in specific Dominican border towns by Dominican authorities to produce consumable charcoal energy which a good 70% of the average Dominican mass populace still depend on and use as cooking fuel energy.
Although the Dominican government indeed has been way more pro-active in finding or providing means of reliefs to its citizen to shift their dependency on charcoal energy to liquid gas energy... great recognition and credit are due and given to DR for that. However the fact is and remains, it was not until recently between last year and this year that the Dominican government has started to give subsidies in lowering pricing of LPG (Propane).
P.S: The plain pure fact is, with all the small great efforts on the Dominican government's part in trying to make propane the available and affordable alternative; even then, the norms is also clear that most of the average Dominican poor mass populace still cannot afford LPG and very much so are still dependent on the use of charcoal as a mean of cooking fuel energy themselves.
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