I love Puerto Rico with its longterm history in agriculture and wonderful sunshine. It has really good roots to trigger regrowth. What ideas have you discovered for recovering?
What do you think of this idea in the Christian Science https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2017...ico?src=shared Monitor?
The 30 Sec. ReadAfter a devastating tornado in Greensburg, Kansas, a decade ago, residents gathered together and declared they were “blessed with a unique opportunity.” The disaster forced the community to look to its “community treasures”: prairie winds and bright sun. Today Greensburg relies mainly on wind and solar power. In rebuilding, residents relied on energy-efficient standards. The benefits from thinking afresh saved the economy and the town. Could Puerto Rico reinvent itself by also thinking afresh? One idea is to return the economy to its roots – literally. Before World War II, Puerto Rico relied mainly on agriculture, a result of its tropical climate and fertile soil. But a social stigma grew up around farming as the island became urbanized and industrialized. In the past few years, however, some entrepreneurs have tried to break that stigma. About 2,000 new farms have been started. Cultivation has risen about 50 percent. Just as in Greensburg, Puerto Rico’s recovery may lie in seeing a blessing after a storm – and by gaining new appreciation of its basic treasure, a rich landscape in which farmers could someday be honored.