* If you want to do something for your grandchildren, buy land and plant hardwoods on it. They will reap the gain.
Israel’s population has increased more than ten times since 1949. The population density is close to Haiti’s. And yet, oddly, they have far more trees now than they did then, hundreds of millions more trees. And their country is half desert. Memo to Africa: Apparently one may also plant trees.
Interestingly before the Nazis decided to kill the Jews off in Europe, at one point they considered sending them all to Madagascar.
* One of the successes of US immigration policy is ending Haitians arriving by boat. They used to arrive in droves in the 1990s by boat not any more and the situation is arguably worse today in Haitian than it was the 90s.
* I believe that Madagascar is a microcosm of what the world will become. We had a chance, albeit a small one, to escape the Malthusian collapse of our globe. But we dithered it away with post-modernism, feminism and its ilk.
We provide for the mass reproduction of people incapable of providing for themselves other than through crude resource exploitation. Simultaneously, we decrease the fertility of those intellectually capable of defeating scarcity.
It’s a recipe for disaster. We will all be long dead before this comes to pass, but it’s still depressing.
* Promoting birth reduction in Africa is controversial. Al Gore, notably did exactly this to limited effect. Even Bill Gates, giving out massive amounts of aid and medicine to reduce death rates in Sub-Saharan Africa advocated reducing birth rates and widely spread birth control options.
Much of the left, doesn’t want a population explosion in Africa. Normal black Americans, have zero interest in increased immigration from Africa.
* Trees convert carbon dioxide to oxygen. Trees provide habitat for animals and understory plants. Dead trees help build the soil. Trees provide a variety of renewable resources (of much higher value than firewood/charcoal).
