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The wall our president wants to build has nothing to do with current immigration trends. They’re banking on this future. Steve Bannon has this book he’s always

The wall our president wants to build has nothing to do with current immigration trends. They’re banking on this future. Steve Bannon has this book he’s always talking about, The Camp of the Saints. It’s the clearest and most concise guide for how they see the climate future rolling out. (This is also why I bristle when they get called climate change deniers. They’re not, they just reached different conclusions.) https://observer.com/2018/05/the-insanity-of-alt-right-bannon-approved-the-camp-of-the-saints/ https://observer.com/2018/05/the-insanity-of-alt-right-banno... (Apologies, I know everyone wants to keep this a politics-light zone; this isn’t off topic.)

nabla9 7y ago
The Camp of the Saints has nothing to do with climate change It's story about brown and black skinned others destroying western civilization with immigration. The motive is racist. The tone of the book is very passionate and overly emotional. Here is short preface Jean Raspail wrote to his book: > I HAD WANTED TO WRITE a lengthy preface to explain my position and show that this is no wild-eyed dream; that even if the specific action, symbolic as it is, may seem farfetched, the fact remains that we are inevitably heading for something of the sort. We need only glance at the awesome population figures predicted for the year 2000, i.e., twenty-eight years from now: seven billion people, only nine hundred million of whom will be white. But what good would it do? I should at least point out, though, that many of the texts I have put into my characters’ mouths or pens—editorials, speeches, pastoral letters, laws, news stories, statements of every description—are, in fact, authentic. Perhaps the reader will spot them as they go by. In terms of the fictional situation I have presented, they become all the more revealing.
- samudrin 7y ago
  Amazing someone could use so many words and say so little. I guess they need to cloak their racism.
- Eric_WVGG 7y ago
  Whether the novel had anything to do with climate change is irrelevant to the lessons that people take from it.

nabla9 7y ago

The Camp of the Saints has nothing to do with climate change It's story about brown and black skinned others destroying western civilization with immigration. The motive is racist. The tone of the book is very passionate and overly emotional. Here is short preface Jean Raspail wrote to his book: > I HAD WANTED TO WRITE a lengthy preface to explain my position and show that this is no wild-eyed dream; that even if the specific action, symbolic as it is, may seem farfetched, the fact remains that we are inevitably heading for something of the sort. We need only glance at the awesome population figures predicted for the year 2000, i.e., twenty-eight years from now: seven billion people, only nine hundred million of whom will be white. But what good would it do? I should at least point out, though, that many of the texts I have put into my characters’ mouths or pens—editorials, speeches, pastoral letters, laws, news stories, statements of every description—are, in fact, authentic. Perhaps the reader will spot them as they go by. In terms of the fictional situation I have presented, they become all the more revealing.

samudrin 7y ago
Amazing someone could use so many words and say so little. I guess they need to cloak their racism.
Eric_WVGG 7y ago
Whether the novel had anything to do with climate change is irrelevant to the lessons that people take from it.