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Refugees flowing into Europe and elsewhere globally are the direct
result of over-population, ecosystem collapse, climate change,
militarism and inequity. Mass migration has the potential to overrun
entire societies and human civilization, and even threatens to collapse
the biosphere. Migration must be controlled; and refugees and economic
migrants assisted to return to productive, sustainable uses of land as
close as possible to their place of origin.
First and foremost the mass exodus of refugees and migrants from
Africa and the Middle East into Europe is an ecological disaster. Entire
regions have overshot the carrying capacity of their land and water;
which has been exacerbated by abrupt climate change, and rising human
populations with unlimited aspirations for consumption.
An estimated 60 million refugees were forced from their homes by
conflict last year. Nearly one billion people live on less than $1.50 a
day, and many if not most would migrate in search of economic
opportunity if given the chance. Today alone 12,000 migrants arrived in
Munich, Germany.
It is a physical impossibility for Europe and America to house all of
Africa, Middle East, and South America’s true refugees as well as
hundreds of millions of poor people that want to migrate to a better
life. Trying will lead to global ecological, social, and economic
collapse.
For all intents and purposes Earth is fully occupied. Thus the nature
of mass migration has changed since Europeans colonized the world.
There no longer exist large intact ecosystems for refugees to flee to,
murder the locals, and cut down natural ecosystems to produce illusory
economic progress for a while before moving on repeatedly. We live in a
different world that is threatened with global biosphere collapse and we need to adjust our expectations on migration accordingly.
Ecological science knows we have already exceeded numerous planetary
boundaries in regard to sustaining a habitable Earth, one of which – as identified by myself in recently published peer reviewed science
– is the need to maintain natural and agro-ecological ecosystems across
2/3 of the land, though 1/2 has already been lost. Natural and
semi-natural ecosystems that remain are crucial to sustaining local and
regional environmental sustainability, as well as the overall well-being
of our one living biosphere that makes all life possible. SUITE
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