Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, William Hyde wrote:

quadibloc wrote:

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024, William Hyde wrote:

D wrote:

 

That the world is overpopulated with no where to go to, is just pure
nonsense.

 

Needless to say, I disagree.

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The above are not my words.
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 My response is more nuanced. He's partly right. The world is not so
overpopulated that people _couldn't_ be moved elsewhere to avoid the
consequences of climate change.
 But the fact I cited, which he argued with, is that the world is
populated enough that everywhere people might want to go to in order
to escape climate change, there's a government which is very likely
not to allow them to do so.
 It's not that the population level all by itself means there's
absolutely
no room,

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This is a claim nobody has made.  So contesting it is pointless.
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it's just that the world is not organized any more so that

people can just migrate wherever they feel like.

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Which was rather my point.
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It's not that the US couldn't absorb 30 million Brazilians and 50 million Indians.
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It's just that they won't.
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William Hyde
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Today, but tomorrow they might. Looking at the demographic pyramid in many countries, and looking at a rational immigration policy where everyone pays for himself, this could change faster than you think.
If we look at catastrophic events, it will change faster than you think.