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A lot of this appears to be due to climate change, and it is happening up and down the Nile valley. Yes, and the ensuing political and social instability is dr
by QAPereo 9y ago
A lot of this appears to be due to climate change, and it is happening up and down the Nile valley.
Yes, and the ensuing political and social instability is driving mass migration; this is an accelerating process. What will happen when tens of millions of desperate Africans flee to Europe? The first, small, pulse of immigration is changing the political landscape of Europe!
I really don’t know the answers to these questions, but holy shit they worry me!
- Spooky23 9y agoA: War and ethnic strife.
- QAPereo 9y agoRight, but now with modern armies, navies, and air forces against... what... just masses of humanity? There won't be a question of the outcome, it will be wholesale slaughter.
- gurkendoktor 9y agoShould questions like these already influence whether/where we buy property or whether to have children? It's hard to find anyone who's optimistic about Europe 30-50 years into the future.
- QAPereo 9y agoI honestly don’t know. I struggle with a somewhat depressive outlook, but horrifically reality and that outlook have been slowly converging. I hope that I’m wrong, just a cranky guy, because the alternatives are genuinely terrifying me.