Where do people belong?

Are populations of people located where they should be? Given Haiti, for instance, the geography is an island on which it is co-located with the Dominican Republic. Simplifying history, ethnic white and Spanish populations segregated against African and French people creating two different politics. The question is, under any set of working politics, how many people can the island sustain with an economy based on local resources? The same sort of question could be asked about Great Britain, for instance.

The capacity of a nation to live beyond its local resources is increased by the education, innovation, and effectiveness of government to manage beyond its means.

In the case of Haiti, government has not been effective for as long as modern man can remember. The population suffers from an intellectual deficit from deficiencies in education caused by deficiencies in government. The issue about resources to sustain a population remains.

Only with international intervention is there any hope for the people of Haiti through: 1) Nation-building, and 2) Relocation.

How many other places on this earth face the same plight? Is there an international organization that is sufficiently effective and with sufficient resources to attend to all of those in need?

There are people living in deserts where people don’t belong, and who suffer under regimes called failed states. What about them? What about intruders driven by religious zeal and other belief systems that discriminate and exploit the helpless? Such is the state of the small world in which we live. Who cares?