The fact that Haiti is a shithole, has been a shithole, and will continue to be a shithole is not the fault of the nation being a complete shithole, nope, this is your fault
Racial justice, climate justice, and reparations: Haiti as an exemplary case
Around the world, countries that were once colonized are consistently more climate-vulnerable than the countries that colonized them—with countries that neither colonized nor were colonized falling between the two.
The coloniality of climate change operates in numerous ways. Colonialism and slavery enormously enriched colonizing countries. This violence and extraction enabled colonizing powers to accumulate wealth, fueling the Industrial Revolution and, in turn, excess greenhouse gas emissions by Global North countries. It also established a global economic model based on the extraction of resources from the Global South that continues to worsen inequality and the climate crisis today. At the same time, colonialism—and the continuing neocolonial dynamics that followed formal decolonization—impoverished colonized countries, degraded their environments, and undermined their governance: all key factors shaping their climate vulnerability.
Colonialism, slavery, and the extractive economy they created relied on racist hierarchies. This structural racism persists today and shapes who is less and more vulnerable to the harms of climate change. As the former UN special rapporteur on racism has underscored, the climate crisis is a racial justice crisis.
The nation has been given enormous amounts of money and aid over the decades, and has been a complete shithole and gotten worse, not better. The Dominican Republic has a wall to keep them out. When they are imported they bring 3rd world, maybe 4th world, lifestyles to wherever they go. This has nothing to do with ‘climate change’: it’s just an excuse for the nation being a failure.
But, they want lots of free cash, and there are plenty of leftist wackos looking to give it to them.
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