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3. Haiti and the D.R. offer a preview
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 04:26 PM
Nov 2013

Haiti has roughly the same population as the D.R. on half the acreage. People are it's chief export. 53% of it's GDP is remittances from overseas. The D.R. now is refusing to accept any more Haitians and is expelling those already there. The message seem to be leave or die. Several million Haitians are living in America.

If the tropics heat up as dramatically as recent predictions suggest, we could be looking at a hundred million climate refugees streaming toward our southern border. You can bet that our military already has contingency plans for such. What happens in Africa is going to even further down on our list of things to worry about.

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