It's not like we're going to have any choice in the matter. Vast regions of the world are quickly becoming uninhabitable both because of climate change and of the damage done during colonialism and its political consequences. We can either choose to open the doors willingly or they are going to be blown open. I personally think it would be more ethical and pracical to open them now, but I seem to be in the minority.

> We can either choose to open the doors willingly or they are going to be blown open.

I'm afraid the reality is likely to be that once the doors are blown open, electorates will vote for people that will man them with machine guns

>Vast regions of the world are quickly becoming uninhabitable

Have you got any concrete examples? The temperature range for human habitability is pretty wide; the temperature regularly gets up to 50 degrees in summer in the Gulf States (like UAE and Saudi) yet the quality of life there is quite high, in spite of it being a literal desert. Most of the refugees entering Europe are fleeing good ol' fashioned wars, not environmental catastrophes.

You don't need to have a very high average. It's sufficient to have a high wet bulb temperature for a few days to kill off large portions of the population. Also consider that Africa is going to represent most of the demographic growth of the world in the next few decades. And consider the effects of all this combined with political instability you quickly get into a situation like the floods in Libya.

> We can either choose to open the doors willingly or they are going to be blown open.

why do you think this? it's next to impossible to completely stop piecemeal border crossings. but beyond a certain scale, it becomes something that militaries can oppose directly. are you suggesting the europeans would not have the stomach for military action against migrants, or that the migrants would somehow defeat them in sheer numbers? if it's the former, I would point out that were are already seeing questionable events with migrant ships in the mediterranean.

Define difficult?

Take France for instance, 10% of people living in France in 2021 were immigrants (born in another country). Net Migration is in the 100-200k range per year.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/03/30/one-in-1...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/686137/net-migration-fra...

France, Spain and Germany are among the betters in terms of immigration. If you consider the rest of western europe, not so great. Even france in particular isn't really that accommodating.

It is hard if you are a qualified professional looking for work in your area, not if you are classified as a refugee.

Which is the opposite to how it should be.

Why? The whole point of accepting refugees is that they're running away from a horrible situation from where they came from (persecution, war, famine, genocide, uninhabitable weather, you get the gist) and accepting them is saving their lives. They are, in theory, the ones most in need.

Of course there are people just looking for better economic opportunities, and people who target specific Western countries to be a refugee in (e.g. Pakistanis that show up in Germany - if they were really fleeing from a critical situation they would stop in the first place that is calm and safe, not continue the journey to a richer country), but they aren't really refugees in the actual sense of the word.

I've hired IT professionals from a lot of non-EU countries to a EU country and it was quite easy.

I don't know where does this argument come from.

I think it's much harder to get to USA.

I'm talking about citizenship. I'm not familiar with every single country's policies, but it's simply a fact that the USA is more accommodating to immigrants than Germany and France, for example. France for instance barely provides support for English speakers, god forbid any other country.

An immigrant who finds themselves in New York City, to contrast, will see that the city provides government assistance in dozens of languages and proof of address and things of that nature aren't even required.

Maybe some bigger countries have this expectation that most people talk their main language and movies are dubbed etc. Certainly also USA.

Smaller countries this is not the case. For example in nordic countries you can get by quite fine with English.

Hiring IT professionals is easy wherever you go. Hell even Japan and Korea have a highway for IT professional visa application. In general "hiring special knowledge worker X from abroad" is always easy, as a employer.

The hard situation is "a person with knowledge X moving to country Y and applying for work", when they have to apply for work no different than locals yet the work visa requirement attached to the resume turns employers away because it's a damn hassle.

You simply can't grasp that from the employer side