Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank.
  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    331·
    6 months ago

    The crazy part is that climate change is going to drive the largest human migration ever as regions become less habitable. The people in arid equatorial regions are headed north and the immigration to nations in northern latitudes is going to be epic. The immigration trickle we see now is nothing compared to the flood we’re creating by continuing to destroy the Earth’s ecosystems.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      6 months ago

      They are getting hit with the consequences of a century of industrialization while we have reaped the benefits in the US and Europe. We owe it to them to at least let them take refuge.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    Concerns of migration is absolutely related to concerns on climate change, it’s just people in general haven’t put those two things together yet.

  • drdiddlybadger
    1·
    6 months ago

    What the fuck do they think people will be migrating for. If we had addressed climate change much of the migration wouldn’t happen. There’d be far fewer droughts and famines and political instability to flee from.

    • modulus@lemmy.ml
      102·
      6 months ago

      There’s an entire political party built around it and you think people can’t talk about it openly?

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      6 months ago

      That is mainly because the fear of migration tends to sound completely bat shit crazy when put into words, at least at the levels that aren’t related to climate change making large parts of Earth’s warm and dry regions uninhabitable.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.works
          81·
          6 months ago

          Mainly because people who are anti-immigrant moan about “unbearable” rates of immigration at immigration rates far below 1% of the existing population and have prejudices like the ones in your comment about immigrants being criminals or replacing the local culture or language even at those comparatively low numbers.