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What is Guyana doing or going to do to solve its demographic problem?
As of right now, Venezuela can actually put in place policies that would incentivize Venezuelan mestizos to penetrate and settle rural uninhabited areas of Guyana with the hopes of in the future legitimizing its claim over the Guyanese territory that it wants. Guyana's population is so tiny that in a short period of time of Venezuelan induced illegal immigration, the character of the people in Guyana will be changed forever, namely a Venezualization of sorts. Guyana might find itself in a similar situation of that of Belize. The difference is that Venezuela wants most of Guyana while Guatemala wants all of Belize.
Guyana's population is so small that with 10 years of unchecked immigration from Venezuela most people in Guyana will be native Spanish speakers of mostly Spanish/Amerindian descent and pro-Venezuelan annexation feelings, basically a complete disconnect to the cultural and demographic origin of the modern Guyanese people. A perfect recepie for starting the beginning of the end of Guyana as its now known.
There is no demographic problem. Truthfully the racial disturbances and tensions in Guyana are primarily in politics. Many of the Indo-Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese live side by side. Of course there primarily Indian towns like there is African villages, but there is no racial war in the country. There is how ever many subtle and lowkey struggles for power that lie along racial lines like elections and the workforce.
But its not that serious. I can say for sure that as a Guyanese in America I have met many Indo-Guyanese that have been willing to do business with me and have exchanged pleasantries because of my background.
A FEW communities in America where Guyanese live by each other specifically in NYC.Both Guyanese of East Indian and African background live in communities like Hollis,Queens Village,Hollis Court , and Jamaica Estates.
Only certain coastal parts like Georgetown are below sea level, but the country is not uninhabitable it is just wild and remote. There is a small sized town in the interior called Lethem though.
And why do you think that Lethem is a small sized town far in the interior, and you will have to get to Linden before you get to any town of any significance in Guyana.
The interior cannot support large populations, and in fact the tremendous ecological damage which is now happening in the Amazon basin of Brazil is evidence of this. The soils are thin and infertile. Settlements are driven mainly by mining or cattle ranching, which aren't labor intensive activities. In addition the infrastructure is primitive and hard to maintain.
Have you ever been in the interior for any length of time, especially during the rainy season?
There is a reason why most people in Brazil, Suriname, and Guyana live on or near the coast. And why the Amazon is empty.
And why do you think that Lethem is a small sized town far in the interior, and you will have to get to Linden before you get to any town of any significance in Guyana.
The interior cannot support large populations, and in fact the tremendous ecological damage which is now happening in the Amazon basin of Brazil is evidence of this. The soils are thin and infertile. Settlements are driven mainly by mining or cattle ranching, which aren't labor intensive activities. In addition the infrastructure is primitive and hard to maintain.
Have you ever been in the interior for any length of time, especially during the rainy season?
There is a reason why most people in Brazil, Suriname, and Guyana live on or near the coast. And why the Amazon is empty.
Lethem is a town none the less and still supports people. And so is the nearby Boa Vista in Brazil.
Are you going to explain the 2 million plus population in Manaus in Brazil that is in the middle of the Amazon? Ecological damage will eventual happen to any of the surrounding areas of a city which is why most cities need green initiatives.
You are thinking in terms of history of how settlements have happened but not on what makes it realistic to make an solid multple populated area like small to mid sized town or city. Cattle ranching has nothing to do with a city in modern times maybe that mattered before in the 1800s.
The reason most cities are on the coast in Brazil is like other areas of South and Central America, its because those were settlements were conquistadors and settlers landed on and it was easier to travel back to the Old World from the coast.Even back then again we city Mayan and Aztec cities in the jungle which are way too ancient,although they are outliers.
In this present day period there hispanic and Latin American countries have cities and towns in the jungle.You still haven't given an answer for why Mexico City one of the biggest cities in the Western Hemisphere is in the middle of the jungle. Santarem in Brazil is another mid size city with a 200k population.Leticia is also in the middle of the Amazon.Iquitos is 400k and is in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon.
Lethem is a town none the less and still supports people. And so is the nearby Boa Vista in Brazil.
Are you going to explain the 2 million plus population in Manaus in Brazil that is in the middle of the Amazon? Ecological damage will eventual happen to any of the surrounding areas of a city which is why most cities need green initiatives.
You are thinking in terms of history of how settlements have happened but not on what makes it realistic to make an solid multple populated area like small to mid sized town or city. Cattle ranching has nothing to do with a city in modern times maybe that mattered before in the 1800s.
The reason most cities are on the coast in Brazil is like other areas of South and Central America, its because those were settlements were conquistadors and settlers landed on and it was easier to travel back to the Old World from the coast.Even back then again we city Mayan and Aztec cities in the jungle which are way too ancient,although they are outliers.
In this present day period there hispanic and Latin American countries have cities and towns in the jungle.You still haven't given an answer for why Mexico City one of the biggest cities in the Western Hemisphere is in the middle of the jungle. Santarem in Brazil is another mid size city with a 200k population.Leticia is also in the middle of the Amazon.Iquitos is 400k and is in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon.
Not trying to disagree with you but couldn't help but point out Mexico city is built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the aztec capital.
Lethem is a town none the less and still supports people. And so is the nearby Boa Vista in Brazil.
Are you going to explain the 2 million plus population in Manaus in Brazil that is in the middle of the Amazon? Ecological damage will eventual happen to any of the surrounding areas of a city which is why most cities need green initiatives.
You are thinking in terms of history of how settlements have happened but not on what makes it realistic to make an solid multple populated area like small to mid sized town or city. Cattle ranching has nothing to do with a city in modern times maybe that mattered before in the 1800s.
The reason most cities are on the coast in Brazil is like other areas of South and Central America, its because those were settlements were conquistadors and settlers landed on and it was easier to travel back to the Old World from the coast.Even back then again we city Mayan and Aztec cities in the jungle which are way too ancient,although they are outliers.
In this present day period there hispanic and Latin American countries have cities and towns in the jungle.You still haven't given an answer for why Mexico City one of the biggest cities in the Western Hemisphere is in the middle of the jungle. Santarem in Brazil is another mid size city with a 200k population.Leticia is also in the middle of the Amazon.Iquitos is 400k and is in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon.
Mexico City isn't in the jungle. It is located in a fertile valley.
Brazil has huge ecological problems due to large numbers of people attempting to live in regions which can support only a few. In fact this might have global climatic ramifications, impacting rain fall and the removal of forest cover which increase carbon emissions.
What are these people going to do? The soil is poor, and so unsuitable for agriculture.
You clearly know little about the environmental challenges of the Amazonian basin. Try to recall those who tried to farm along the Linden Highway and how they had to abandon their farms as the soils wore out, and no amount of fertilizer would make a difference.
Look at Belize. Once had dense Mayan settlements, but that civilization collapsed as the population grew beyond sustainable levels, and these communities are a shadow of what they once were 700 years ago.
It is possible that the Intermediate Savannas, behind the coast, can support more population, as it appears suitable for some forms of agriculture, but to suggest that this is also true for the far interior is utter nonsense.
Mexico City isn't in the jungle. It is located in a fertile valley.
Brazil has huge ecological problems due to large numbers of people attempting to live in regions which can support only a few. In fact this might have global climatic ramifications, impacting rain fall and the removal of forest cover which increase carbon emissions.
What are these people going to do? The soil is poor, and so unsuitable for agriculture.
You clearly know little about the environmental challenges of the Amazonian basin. Try to recall those who tried to farm along the Linden Highway and how they had to abandon their farms as the soils wore out, and no amount of fertilizer would make a difference.
Look at Belize. Once had dense Mayan settlements, but that civilization collapsed as the population grew beyond sustainable levels, and these communities are a shadow of what they once were 700 years ago.
It is possible that the Intermediate Savannas, behind the coast, can support more population, as it appears suitable for some forms of agriculture, but to suggest that this is also true for the far interior is utter nonsense.
I already gave you an example of Manaus and host of other brazilian cities in the jungle. And Mexico City is in tropical rainforest area.
Carbon emissions are have nothing to do with being detrimental to a city, on the other hand it can be detrimental to the surrounding environment.Like really.
You are clearly slow, do you really think people would have farms in the city.Thats why you import it poluty and greens from the farmland.LOL Not even the backward Garden City of Georgetown doesn't have farms. I can't believe you would suggest something that dumb.
The Mayan civiliation collapsed for other reasons then being in the jungle, nice try.
Can you explain the other Brazilian and Mexican cities and towns in the jungle?Right caseclosed.
I already gave you an example of Manaus and host of other brazilian cities in the jungle. And Mexico City is in tropical rainforest area.
Carbon emissions are have nothing to do with being detrimental to a city, on the other hand it can be detrimental to the surrounding environment.Like really.
You are clearly slow, do you really think people would have farms in the city.Thats why you import it poluty and greens from the farmland.LOL Not even the backward Garden City of Georgetown doesn't have farms. I can't believe you would suggest something that dumb.
The Mayan civiliation collapsed for other reasons then being in the jungle, nice try.
Can you explain the other Brazilian and Mexican cities and towns in the jungle?Right caseclosed.
Your own map shows that Mexico City is not located in an area which was a TROPICAL rain forest.
FACT. Most Brazilians do NOT live in the interior.
FACT. The movement of people into interior regions in Brazil has created major ecological and environmental disasters. In fact parts of the Amazon are facing DESERTIFICATION. Imagine that!The Heat Is Online
FACT. To tell millions of people to move into Guyana's interior is courting disaster. WHAT are they going to do once they cut down the trees, the heavy rains remove the nutrients, and nothing can grow on those lands.
FACT. You really do NOT know what you are babbling about! What are the people in cities in the middle of Guyana, going to do? Manaus exists because it is at the confluence of large navigable rivers. What remote part of Guyana has rivers large enough to accommodate large vessels?
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