What an interesting idea, Laurie. It never ocurred to me.
The fact is that people from other places living there for pleasure, probably will reconsider it, if they can choose. And many that were about to go there for vacation or to live on the coast line, most probably will choose otherwise. It will affect turism business, which is the first one -besides the producing of tropical fruits and other vegetables that are exported outside the island.
The fire will affect and change how things were before, even when I have the impression the nature will regenerate quickly. To the people affected that lost home, cultivated fields and animals, yesterday the Gobern proclamed unlimited quantity of public money to help them to restore what they had.
I always tend to take things that seem to be lost or in a bad shape, like old houses, and restore them bringing them ahead to a new and sometimes better stage. I'm growing old physically and I don't have the same strenght, but I'm sure that I'll act this tendency there in a way possible to me.
UNESCO will have something to say too, I guess, since they declared most of the island Biosphere Reservation.
