Re:Food security and the coming storm
by fennecfoxen on Sunday May 29, 2022 @03:51PM
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> solving these problems... where they happen (would also be much cheaper)
You assert that it's much cheaper to solve these problems without moving the people. It is not nearly so cut-and-dry.
When someone seeks to flee their homeland for Europe or America, it's generally because something is very wrong where they are coming from. Often, the problem includes some sort of kleptocratic, warmongering, authoritarian, or incompetent government. (Sometimes it is not strictly government — e.g. terrorism, cartels.)
Re:Food security and the coming storm
by guerrilla on Monday May 30, 2022 @02:33AM
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Just curious, did you read the article before responding?
Then I'm wondering, why do you expect all 1.2 billion Africans to flee Africa? That seems very unrealistic.
You assert that it's much cheaper to solve these problems without moving the people. It is not nearly so cut-and-dry.
When someone seeks to flee their homeland for Europe or America, it's generally because something is very wrong where they are coming from. Often, the problem includes some sort of kleptocratic, warmongering, authoritarian, or incompetent government. (Sometimes it is not strictly government — e.g. terrorism, cartels.)
It's often much easier to move people than reform institutions, and open migration worldwide would be a reform worth about $78 trilllllllllllllion. https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2017/07/13/a-world-of...