Climate-driven migration in Africa

European Council on Foreign Relations ^ | December 20, 2017 | by Staff

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Europe is underestimating the primary cause of migration from sub-saharan Africa: climate change. Environmental changes have a particularly pronounced impact on migration from Africa for at least four reasons: the continent is highly dependent on natural resources and agriculture, which are the first assets to be undermined by climate change; it has poor infrastructure, such as flood defences; its states are often characterized by weak institutions, which are less able to adapt to climate change; and its high poverty rate undermines the resilience of local populations to climate shocks.

Climate change is affecting stability and security, too. There are plenty of analyses demonstrating the effect of climate change – namely the severe droughts and desertification that affected eastern Syria in 2008 – on the civil unrests that finally led to the war in Syria. This is not to say that climate change caused the Syrian war, but it appears to have been a contributing factor.

Symptomatic of the general lack of interest in climate-enforced migration is the absence of any legal recognition for ‘climate migrants’. While the term “refugee” offers protections based on a precise meaning under the Geneva Refugee Convention of 1951, there is no consensus over the definition – and the legal treatment – of people forcibly displaced by climate change. At present they are treated as economic migrants, resulting in barriers to entering Europe legally. Addressing this deficiency is just one way in which European policymakers must now, belatedly, get to grips with the growing phenomenon of climate-enforced migration.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[butlerweave]

climate change caused the Syrian war

LOL, they’ll say/blame any and everything ,bunch of fools

[BenLurkin]

Build that wall Europe.

[nobamanomore]

I think they have totally lost it!

[colorado tanker]

The transition zone from the Sahara to the wet zone has always had cycles of drought and adequate water.

But, if the Euros flood that zone with bravo sierra like this, it could really help the local agriculture.

[MNDude]

So the Muslim invasion of Europe is caused not by the policies of malevolent liberal globalists, but rather because are automobiles consume too much fuel.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep, you nailed it again.

They pump this bilge out by the 50 gallon barrel.

[antidemoncrat]

Bravo! The truth.

[Clean_Sweep]

Ignoring the fact that they are giving away free shit for no work.

[Bigg Red]

...it has poor infrastructure, such as flood defences; its states are often characterized by weak institutions, which are less able to adapt to climate change; and its high poverty rate undermines the resilience of local populations to climate shocks.

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In other words, it is just as bad off as it has been for hundreds of years.

And, of course, it’s Trump’s fault.

[headstamp 2]

[Ignoring the fact that they are giving away free shit for no work.]

Exactly, the old saw goes, you can have open borders or a generous welfare state. But not both.

[blam]

"Ignoring the fact that they are giving away free shit for no work."

THIS:

Commission: EU Too White, Mass Third World Migration Must Be ‘New Norm’

THEN THIS:

FRENCH MAYORS PANIC AS MIGRANTS OVERWHELM CITIES, BEG MACRON FOR HELP

[Alas Babylon!]

It is just a LIE!

From the Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5):

The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated by a linear trend, show a warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C, over the period 1880 to 2012, when multiple independently produced datasets exist. The total increase between the average of the 1850–1900 period and the 2003–2012 period is 0.78 [0.72 to 0.85] °C, based on the single longest dataset available (see Figure SPM.1).

In 100 years plus, the temperature of the Earth has gone up less than one/ONE/1 degree Celsius.

How could have climate change affected the Earth at THIS time? Nothing. They got nothing.

Totally pulled from their European Asses.

[Nachoman]

Well, its about time. (channeling Sam Kinison)

MOVE OUT OF THE DESERT! THERE’S NO WATER IN THE DESERT!

[Bryanw92]

>>four reasons: the continent is highly dependent on natural resources and agriculture, ...it has poor infrastructure, ...its states are often characterized by weak institutions, ...and its high poverty rate

IOW, they are barely above hunter-gatherer stage and what little they do produce is stolen by Marxist leaders, and this is a culture that hyphenated Americans seek to emulate here.

[Jaxter]

Wait, are they saying sub-Saharan Africa is hot? Who knew?

[Mack the knife]

>>four reasons: the continent is highly dependent on natural resources and agriculture, ...it has poor infrastructure, ...its states are often characterized by weak institutions, ...and its high poverty rate

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A fifth reason appears further down in the article: Chad has the highest fertility rate in the world — an almost unbelievable 7.3 (SEVEN POINT THREE) children per woman!!!!!! This generates an ever growing population that cannot feed itself, and this is the root of the problem. Now, some observations:
1) Why does this problem belong to the West? Asserting so is racist — another version of the “White Man’s Burden”
2) There are no painless solutions to the problem:
2a) reduction in fertility requires a change in culture, which will be resisted as long as possible;
2b) feeding the current population is expensive and counter productive - feed them so they will continue to procreate;
2c) migration is counterproductive - it releases the pressure a bit so they will continue to procreate, and create the problem of millions of unemployable primitives in a host country to be fed but to retain their previous culture (case in point — the 1000 no-go zones in France).
3) With the best of intentions, the West cannot solve this problem. Even with food aid and migration, millions of children will starve to death, because the problem is larger than the resources that can be brought to bear (poor infrastructure).
4) I am tempted to conclude that the most humane solution to this problem is to stop migration and food aid ... and let them starve (even if this results in tribal warfare) — only starvation will change their culture; to do otherwise merely postpones the problem and makes it larger in the future.

[Bodega]

Yes you are absolutely correct. I have been writing about populations exploding for 20 years and being called all kinds of names because I have noted the names of groups not practicing birth control. Birth control is critical to increasing the well being of any peoples. I am appalled at the governments and liberals in Europe allowing populations of people, Muslims, with birth control at 7-9 children per woman into their countries and being dismayed at the results. What???

[kearnyirish2]

That was a great skit - “Send them U-Hauls!”

On a serious note, it is very clear that many people don’t perform the simplest maintenance on their environment. During the Depression here, farmers were shown how to rotate crops to preserve soil. Concepts as basic as replanting are alien to some Third Worlders; I remember years ago seeing a photo in National Geographic (from the air) of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic: It was a straight line where lush vegetation met arid, dry soil. Haitians had cut all the wood for firewood and never replanted anything; they had CREATED a desert in the moist, humid tropics...

[kearnyirish2]

When the “global warming” scheme fell apart (because evidence debunked it, and people weren’t so anxious to give up material comfort to “save the Earth”), it morphed into “climate change”, which at this point is simply justification for taking from WASP-rooted societies and giving to primitive peoples who refuse to provide for themselves.