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Moving a 1,000,000,000 people is not that difficult? Do you have any idea what you're talking about? That would be the largest migration in human history, by a

Moving a 1,000,000,000 people is not that difficult? Do you have any idea what you're talking about? That would be the largest migration in human history, by a wide margin. Recently, we've had something on the order of 2,500,000 people moving to Europe and it's widely seen as somewhere between a crisis and a catastrophe.

TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
> Do you have any idea what you're talking about? I think I have a better conceptualization than many people "discussing" this issue. > That would be the largest migration in human history, by a wide margin Nope. How many people have migrated from mexico to the US over the last 50 years? Are you assuming that one day 1 million people wake up and everyone has to move because the ocean is rising? How many feet to permanently displace 1 million over what time and how far do you really think anyone will go? You get people living next to live volcanos in Hawaii where the largest island is kinda the size of Orange County, CA. smh Calm down and rethink what we're talking about.
- ForHackernews 8y ago
  > Nope. How many people have migrated from mexico to the US over the last 50 years? A hell of a lot fewer than a billion (again: 1,000,000,000) given that the entire US population is only ~400,000,000 today. I expect the average HN user to have better numeracy than this.