If you'll read my post a little more carefully you'll see references to the US of the 1930's and comments about third world countries. I don't believe I mentioned Capitalism. You must be reading between the lines with a microscope. Those countries I mentioned (and several more) have been stripped bare. There's nothing left. They're barren. No vegetation to speak of. Why do you find that hard to believe and why would you not believe it's visible from space?
Your extreme defensiveness toward comments which only state the obvious to anyone with two eyes leads me to believe you can't acknowledge that there are real environmental issues out there and I'm not talking about spotted owls.
I think what he and others have often stated is that even though there are serious problems, the solutions of the so called environmental crowd make the problem less. The problem with Haiti is the simple fact it is a Socialist hell. No one owns the trees in Haiti so there is on incentive to maintain them for profit. What is frustrating is that there are solutions to the problems you state, but leftists around the world prevent their implementation because of their utter hatred of Capitalism
I'm not trying to attack you personally and I'll bet if we really had time to thoroughly verbalize our points of view, we'd find much to agree upon. But the way you started out, up the thread, caused me not to read between the lines, but to anticipate you next bringing up the slaughter of buffalo, or some such, just to reinforce your comments that were beginning to sound like the useless rhetoric I've heard from the tired old militant leftists who found a home in the EnvironMental Movement, just like Gorbechov and his "Green Cross International!!!"
You didn't quite go that far and did stop short... I was just anticipating what I hoped was not next! Sorry...
Also, I'm seeing more and more appearant Freepers who exhibit all the features of what's called "The New Republican Majority," here in CA, who are death on conservatives and love to make them out to be anti-environment, exactly like the leftist have been doing, by making statements that are wearing thin, like: "surely conservatives should be more concerned with the environment than anyone" as if they weren't! And that's dead wrong!!!