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by CatWChainsaw 1057 days ago
Ah of course, my mistake; throwing migrants, regardless of their legal status, back into rivers to let them drown, or sinking their boats, or depriving them water in historic heatwaves where people get second-degree burns from pavement surely isn't indicative of how things will play out once things get even worse.
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throwaway09223 1057 days ago
No, it isn't indicative at all.

The vast majority of immigration occurs without incident and there is no compelling evidence that this will change in the future.

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CatWChainsaw 1054 days ago
Twenty years ago these stories were not commonplace. The three I listed are from the last couple of months, and considering I could list them off the top of my head, it's more like last couple of news cycles. Not to mention the surface temps of the oceans are getting to be in the 100s fahrenheit, which wasn't predicted until closer to mid-century. They are indications.

No compelling evidence like the increase in global population, global temperatures, sea level rise, extreme weather events that cause greater amounts of people to be permanently displaced, political sectarianism, authoritarianism, extremism, and violence; and the concordant decreases in democracy, due process, habitable land, resources, and the ability of institutitions public OR private to handle the uncertainties. Because there's an "absence of evidence"? Because it would be a "black swan event"? Because it would be... unprecedented, perhaps? Have I made my point or do I need to keep going?

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CatWChainsaw 1052 days ago
I'm going to go on anyway. 50 whales got beached and couldn't be returned to the water and so had to be mercy-killed. The UN secretary general said that the era of global warming is over because the era of global boiling has arrived. I'll keep you updated as long as the post remains open for comment!
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CatWChainsaw 1049 days ago
Oopsie doopsie, Arizona spent the entire month of July over 110F, India is outlawing almost all rice exports, South America is over 100F in their winter, Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of ice in its winter, cacti in the Mojave Desert are wilting and dying in heat even they can't handle, and Iran just flat out shut down for two days due to the heat.

But sure, people are going to migrate slowly and not die in great numbers as receiving nations pull up the drawbridges and rain arrows on the intruders.

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