Posted on 05/07/2018 6:44:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Student groups placed signs displaying refugee statistics along the walkways of the Arts Quad to foster discussion about the global refugee crisis, including the plight of climate change refugees.
The South Asian Council installed the signs in collaboration with Cornell Welcomes Refugees and Climate Justice Cornell for People’s Climate Week.
“I think the U.S. should provide sanctuary to those who it has indirectly and directly, temporarily and permanently, displaced by being the highest greenhouse gas emitter (and largest contributor to climate change) for most of modern history despite its fairly modest population density,” said Elizabeth Chi ’18, former campaign coordinator for Climate Justice Cornell.
Statistics posted on the signs claimed that “the United Nations estimates that more people are displaced due to climate change effects than due to war.”
“It’s a critical time for these conversations to take place because, with the current geopolitical climate, more and more refugees are being turned down for resettlement in the United States,” said Tarannum Sahar ’20, president of Cornell Welcomes Refugees.
“While refugees are fleeing their homes, the United States is closing its borders,” said Aliza Adhami ’19, advocacy chair of the South Asian Council. “The US has played a major role in creating the refugee crisis through regime changes, but at the same time closes its doors to those very refugees.”
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I’ve been aware for my entire life. It’s why I bring my lawn mower and tractor into the barn during the winter, and bring them back up to the house during the summer.
As the son of German immigrants, I fondly recall the days when people were ECSTATIC to come to the United States and become Americans. Unlike these miserable cretins.
Of course, it's always these few rabble rousers that get all the attention. People at naturalization ceremonies all over the country still show how happy and proud they are to have become Americans. These photos are always heart-warming and are important reminders of what America means to people around the globe:
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Be aware ... and deport.
Why, they’ll levy a tax on all the other specks on course!
“the plight of climate change refugees”
Any chance I might have taken their message seriously disappeared when they started whining about imaginary catastrophes.
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