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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 15, 2022, 9:28 pm
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Similarly:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBKf-857Bnk
This is just going to get worse over time as water levels rise.
The only correct solution is to emigrate. The aim should be to
at leat return to the pre-colonial Azanian population which was
a much more sensible number:
HTML https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/1067083/population-south-africa-historical.jpg
The remainder should move to former colonizers Britain or the
Netherlands.
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 22, 2022, 1:27 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-and-russias-war-in-ukraine-help-push-somalia-to-the-brink-of-famine-231159528.html
[quote]After three consecutive years of almost no rain, the East
African country of Somalia is in the grips of its worst drought
in more than 40 years, according to an analysis by the World
Food Programme, the food-assistance branch of the United
Nations. Experts say conditions are so dire for the nation’s 16
million residents that a famine threatening millions of people
is fast approaching.[/quote]
The only correct solution is mass emigration.
[quote]“A famine could be declared in some parts of the country
in the next few months,” Abdi-Rashid Haji Nur, the Somalia
country director for Concern Worldwide, told Yahoo News.
Three failed rainy seasons and a fourth now unfolding have
resulted in barren harvests, malnourished livestock and such
limited natural resources that at least 700,000 Somalians have
uprooted their lives and left their homes in hopes of finding
safety and sustenance. Many have been forced to set out on long
journeys through dangerous terrain and conflict-ridden
communities in search of urban centers to access support.
“The situation is not only alarming, but also deteriorating,”
Patrick Youssef, regional director of Africa for the
International Committee of the Red Cross, told Yahoo News.
“People are massively abandoning their homes in search of food
and water ... and women and children are dying on the
way.”[/quote]
I of course do not mean internal migration from one part of
Somalia to another. I am recommending migration from Somalia,
preferably to former colonizers Britain and Italy, or otherwise
any former Western colonial power.
[quote]From 2010-2012, a quarter of a million Somalis — half of
them children — died during the last famine to be caused by
drought, according to a report by the U.N. and the U.S.-funded
Famine Early Warning Systems Network.[/quote]
Imagine if all of them had emigrated instead.
[quote]Today, more than a third of the population, or 6 million
people, are facing severe hunger in a country where seven out of
10 people live on less than two dollars a day, data from the
World Food Programme shows.
Estimates show that 350,000 of the 1.4 million severely
malnourished children in the country would die by this
summer[/quote]
Emigrate ASAP!
[quote]Various humanitarian groups, including Concern Worldwide
and the ICRC, are on the ground in Somalia, but insufficient
funding and limited access to war-torn parts of the country
means they can only do so much. Aid groups say they have raised
just 3% of the funds that are needed to help the
country.[/quote]
It is much easier to emigrate.
[quote]As evidenced by severe floods in South Africa this week
that have left at least 500 dead or missing, the continent of
Africa faces the brunt of other countries’ actions. In its
latest report, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change determined that Africa has historically been one
of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas emitters, yet suffers some
of the most severe effects of climate change.[/quote]
This is why emigration to the countries whose civilization was
behind the Industrial Revolution (which caused global warming)
is the correct solution.
[quote]n February, 50 Somali and international NGOs in an open
letter asked for support from donor nations and the
international community, hoping to avoid a repeat of another
near famine-like drought a decade ago.
“In 2011, despite the warnings, the international humanitarian
system did too little, too late and an estimated 260,000 people
lost their lives to a famine,” the letter read in part. “We must
make sure that history does not repeat itself.”[/quote]
I guarantee history will repeat itself unless you emigrate ASAP.
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 27, 2022, 10:35 pm
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Continuing from:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/msg12828/#msg12828
now:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/india-too-hot-says-modi-104850780.html
[quote]NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India is getting too hot too early,
raising the risk of fires, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned
on Wednesday, as a heatwave gripped much of the country and a
landfill site burned on the capital's outskirts.
"Temperatures are rising rapidly in the country, and rising much
earlier than usual," Modi told heads of India's state
governments in an online conference.
The extreme heat has swept across large areas of India and
Pakistan this week and follows the hottest March since the India
Meteorological Department (IMD) began keeping records 122 years
ago.
More than a billion people are at risk of heat-related health
impacts, scientists said.[/quote]
This is the number that should become climate refugees ASAP!
[quote]SWELTERING
Among the worst hit have been the typically humid eastern Indian
states, which saw temperatures above 43C on Wednesday.
"Rarely it happens that nearly the whole country ... is reeling
under (a) heatwave," said hydroclimatologist Arpita Mondal at
the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, on the coast of
Maharashtra, where she said the heat was "unbearable". Mumbai
temperatures hit 37C on Wednesday.
Climate change is "beyond doubt" a contributing factor to the
weather extremes, Mondal said.[/quote]
And which one civilization is singularly to blame for this? This
is where climate refugees should head to!
[quote]While heat risks lives and livelihoods in India, the real
danger comes when high temperatures mix with high humidity,
making it difficult for people to cool down through sweating.
...
On Wednesday, cities in southern West Bengal and coastal Odisha
saw wet bulb temperatures of around 29C. Humans can survive only
a few hours outdoors if wet bulb temperatures exceed
35C.[/quote]
Emigrate to the EU FFS!
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 15, 2022, 3:47 am
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How many more warning signs do you need? Emigrate ASAP!
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/birds-falling-sky-india-record-083435523.html
[quote]Birds are falling from the sky in India as a record
heatwave dries up water sources
...
In India's western Gujarat state, currently averaging
temperatures over 110°F, dozens of high flying birds, including
pigeons and kites, have been dropping out of the sky every day,
Reuters reported.
Vets in an animal hospital in Ahmedabad said they had treated
thousands of birds in recent weeks, the outlet said.
...
The nearly "unsurvivable" heat is increasingly the result of
human-caused climate change, according to Yale Climate
Connections.[/quote]
Non-Western humans did not cause it.
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/northern-hemisphere-feeling-heat-pakistan-005055828.html
[quote]Northern Hemisphere feeling the heat as Pakistan hits
staggering 51 C[/quote]
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 20, 2022, 12:42 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/time-running-save-horn-africa-174258967.html
[quote]"We're out of time. We need money urgently to save
lives," UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told a press conference in
Geneva, following a two-day visit to Kenya.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the harshest droughts
in living memory, with more than 15 million people facing high
levels of acute food insecurity and severe water shortages
across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, the UN said.
The number could reach 20 million if the current below-average
rains fail.
"It's likely to get a lot worse for more people in the weeks
ahead," Griffiths said, with prospects for the next rainy season
from October to December "as dire as the last four" seasons.
...
Griffiths said the Horn of Africa was "particularly underfunded"
and funds invested there would be "money well spent... because
the suffering is so intense".
In the Sahel region, the situation was "similarly dire".
Up to 18 million people in Africa's semi-arid sub-Saharan belt
will face severe food insecurity over the next three months, he
said.
The UN humanitarian agency launched its 2022 appeal in December,
seeking $41 billion to help 274 million in need of humanitarian
aid and protection.
But it now needs $46 billion to help 303 million people, of
which it aims to reach 202 million.
Griffiths said donors had so far contributed almost $6 billion
so far -- a record high at this point in the year.
But since humanitarian funding has levelled out at about $19
billion a year and the 2022 bill has risen, "we're not even
going to make it halfway", he said.[/quote]
Which is why the only correct solution is mass emigration to the
EU. I have been advising people to emigrate early for years.
They didn't listen. Now the crisis is here.
#Post#: 13528--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 22, 2022, 3:01 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/torturous-heat-breaking-records-livelihoods-083025491.html
[quote]NEW DELHI, India — Street vendor Rohan Mishra wakes
before dawn to buy fresh vegetables from the bazaar and steels
himself for another day hauling his cart under the punishing New
Delhi sun.
Unable to afford time off during India’s record-shattering heat
wave, he endures headaches, dizzy spells and nosebleeds as he
desperately tries to hawk his produce before it withers in the
basket.
“Money has been difficult recently,” Mishra said. “This
[weather] is torturous. I frequently have to throw away
vegetables because they become mushy and spoil in the heat. We
already buy at a steep price because the hot weather has been
affecting the harvest.”
Mishra is one of millions of laborers in India and Pakistan who
have had to toil through the hottest spring on record, in
conditions that scientists fear will soon regularly afflict
billions across the globe and contribute to a looming food
crisis.
The U.N.’s climate science panel said in February that more than
430 million people globally were exposed to extreme heat in
2020.
Depending on how quickly the global economy reins in carbon
emissions, it warned that between half and two-thirds of
humanity would be “exposed to periods of life-threatening
climatic conditions arising from coupled impacts of extreme heat
and humidity” this century.
It said the burden will be disproportionately felt by the urban
poor in regions of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
...
“Whether it’s in Madagascar or India, or multiple African
countries, we’ve seen this for a while — it’s a dual shock of
heat waves and droughts,” he said.
...
Most lower-income families lack access to refrigeration, cold
water or air-conditioning — a potentially deadly situation,
especially when extreme heat combines with high humidity to
create “wet bulb” temperature spikes. High wet-bulb temperatures
can hamper the human body’s ability to cool itself through
perspiration, meaning just a few hours’ exposure can kill even
healthy individuals.
Singh said that even during low-humidity hot spells, older
people with underlying health conditions such as lung or heart
issues are particularly vulnerable. There is also greater risk
of contracting illnesses such as diarrhea, which kills more than
half a million children under 5 each year.
“When you don’t have refrigeration, you eat spoiled foods and
you can get sick,” Singh said.
Dasgupta said that farmers in the region were increasingly
contracting kidney disease as they are unable to find enough
water to drink throughout the day when temperatures
soar.[/quote]
The only solution is mass emigration. Sure, becoming a climate
refugee may involve risks of its own, but not becoming a climate
refugee will eventually mean certain death. We need to think of
heatwaves caused by global warming as slow-acting WMDs. They
were created by the same civilization that created the other
WMDs, and they could end up killing billions of us if we do not
flee the bombing. But the fact that these WMDs are slow-acting
at least gives us time to flee, unlike with the other WMDs. So
why aren't we taking advantage of the slowness to relocate? To
avoid being killed, and to be in position to one day hold
Western civilization accountable for the bombing, as many of us
as possible need to be as near as possible to those who did this
to us.
#Post#: 13826--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 1, 2022, 9:46 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/drought-threatens-starvation-horn-africa-112901307.html
[quote]LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of people face severe hunger
in the Horn of Africa as the worst drought in more than 40 years
could extend to a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the
United Nations and humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday.
The March-May rainy season appears likely to be the driest on
record, devastating livelihoods and deepening a humanitarian
emergency in Ethiopia, Somalia and parts of Kenya, including a
risk of famine in Somalia, they said in a joint statement.
There is a risk that the October-December rainy season could
also fail.
Drought has combined with a global rise in food and fuel prices,
pushed up by war in Ukraine, to impact millions of people across
the continent.
An estimated 16.7 million people currently face acute food
insecurity in east Africa and that figure could increase to 20
million by September, the statement said.
"The threat of starvation looms in east Africa. This is after
four failed rainy reasons," said Clare Nullis, spokesperson at
the World Meteorological Organization.
"We are particularly concerned that the situation is set to get
worse," she told a briefing in Geneva.
Aid agencies are seeking to avoid the repeat of a famine a
decade ago that killed hundreds of thousands of people.[/quote]
Those hundreds of thousands from a decade ago should have
migrated to the EU. They didn't, therefore they died. Will
people today learn from this previous mistake?
[quote]"A rapid scaling up of actions is needed now to save
lives and avert starvation and death," the U.N. and agencies
said in the joint statement.[/quote]
The only meaningful action is mass emigration to the EU!
#Post#: 13843--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 2, 2022, 10:43 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/rich-nations-toxic-habits-bring-040051597.html
[quote]Rich Nations’ Toxic Habits Bring African Refugees to
Their Doors[/quote]
I like the tone of this headline. However, it is not because
they are rich, it is because they are Western. The toxic habits
are a consequence of Western civilization, not of being rich.
Being rich is a consequence of adeptness at those toxic habits.
[quote]“At some point leaving is better than staying; you can
walk until you drop dead, but you can’t just sit still until you
die from hunger,” the 37-year-old said in an interview in April.
“Every year is worse than the previous one.”
The number of Africans trying to make it to the US southern
border is on track to hit a potential record this year. Coming
from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Senegal, Ghana,
Somalia and elsewhere, many are escaping livelihood-destroying
climate events. The continent they’re fleeing is facing natural
disasters at a faster rate than the rest of the planet, and is
largely unprepared to deal with them. Africa, which has done the
least to cause the global climate crisis — producing just 4% of
the world’s greenhouse gas emissions — is being hit by record
storms, floods and droughts as the earth heats up.
By 2050, 86 million Africans, or about 6.6% of the region’s 1.3
billion people, will be forced to migrate by climate change, the
World Bank estimates. That’s on top of those fleeing conflicts
and persecution — often linked to climate-related skirmishes
over scarce resources. And with Africa’s population expected to
double by 2050, those numbers can only rise.
The vast majority of climate victims migrate to other parts of
their own country — mostly to urban slums — or spill into a
neighboring nation, but those who can scrape together some funds
venture farther afield. With over 4,500 Africans crossing the
Colombia-Panama border between January and April this year,
according to the International Organization for Migration, they
have become the second-largest group — after Latin Americans —
to try to get to the US border. And although Europe has
tightened controls, in the first two months this year, over
89,000 people crossed the Sahara desert in northern Niger,
according to the IOM. Most were on their way to — or returning
from — Algeria and Libya, the well-worn path to Europe, with
nine out of 10 people the IOM spoke to citing climate change as
one of the reasons for why they were leaving.
“People are like ‘OK, I can’t live here, I may as well die
trying to get somewhere else,’” said Ayaan Adam, chief executive
officer of AFC Capital Partners, the unit of the
infrastructure-focused Africa Finance Corp. that’s raising $500
million for a climate-resilience fund this year. “This is
happening now. We are seeing a preview of the movie that will
unroll and that will be increasing in intensity.”
...
Extreme weather events have exploded in Africa. The Horn of
Africa is currently dealing with the worst drought in at least
four decades, putting 16 million people across Kenya, Ethiopia
and Somalia at risk and raising the specter of a famine. In May,
South Africa’s deadliest floods in almost three decades
triggered landslides that killed 435 people and destroyed
thousands of dwellings.
The number of floods in Africa has jumped five-fold since the
1990s, according to GCA. In 2020, the most severe flood in Sudan
in 60 years displaced more than 500,000 people. In 2019, two of
the strongest cyclones ever recorded hit east Africa. Cyclone
Idai destroyed 90% of the homes in the city of Beira in
Mozambique and damaged 1.4 million hectares (3.6 million acres)
of arable land in Zimbabwe. That was followed by Cyclone
Kenneth. Together, they killed 1,300 people and affected the
lives of 3.5 million more.
The floods that followed the cyclones provoked the worst locust
infestation in a quarter century, leaving 9.6 million people in
Sudan without enough food and driving thousands of farmers in
Somalia to migrate. Africa loses 4 million hectares of forest
each year to land degradation, Lake Chad has shrunk by 90% in
the last 40 years and the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro are
melting.
“Climate change impacts are costing African economies between 3%
and 5% of their GDPs,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
told the African Union on Feb. 6. “Despite not being responsible
for causing climate change, it is Africans who are bearing both
the brunt and the cost.
...
In an index of 182 countries assessed by the Notre Dame Global
Adaptation Initiative for climate-change vulnerability, the
bottom seven are African. That comes from the continent’s
overwhelming dependence on subsistence farming. About half of
Africa’s population relies on agriculture. In the eastern parts
of the continent, that number rises to 70%. There’s little
irrigation, leaving farmers at the mercy of rain.
For many potential climate refugees, poor crops are where their
migration journeys start. Mouhoumoudane Mohamed, 34, from a
village in the Agadez region in Niger, left for Algeria in 2019,
hoping to make it to Europe.
“One bad harvest followed another; the meager crops that you
could squeeze from the soil weren’t enough,” Mohamed said. “The
problem in Agadez is the lack of water. When it rains, it’s
never enough. Or it’s too heavy and destroys the crops.”
He failed, and is back in Agadez, holding off trying again — for
now.
A record 4.3 million people were displaced in 2020 in
Sub-Saharan Africa alone due to weather events and conflicts,
GCA estimates. Migration within the continent creates problems
of its own.[/quote]
The only hope is mass migration to the EU! Keep trying to get in
and get more others to try also! The more people trying
simultaneously, the better the chances for all! Climate refugees
must organize and coordinate!
#Post#: 13950--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 9, 2022, 1:19 am
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This is what I have been warning about so that people could
escape before it started (but too few have listened):
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/only-god-help-hundreds-die-100906878.html
[quote]The dying has begun in the region’s worst drought in four
decades. Previously unreported data shared with the Associated
Press show at least 448 deaths this year at malnutrition
treatment centers in Somalia alone.
...
“We know from experience that mortality rises suddenly when all
the conditions are in place — displacement, disease outbreaks,
malnutrition — all of which we are currently seeing in Somalia,”
said Biram Ndiaye, UNICEF Somalia’s chief of nutrition.
Mortality surveys conducted in parts of Somalia in December and
again in April and May by the U.N.’s Food Security and Nutrition
Analysis Unit showed a “severe and rapid deterioration within a
very short time frame.” Most alarming was the Bay region in the
south, where adult mortality nearly tripled, child mortality
more than doubled and the rate of the most severe malnutrition
tripled.
Deaths and acute malnutrition have reached “atypically high
levels” in much of southern and central Somalia, and admissions
of acutely malnourished children under 5 have risen by more than
40% compared to the same period last year, according to the
Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
...
More than 200,000 people in Somalia face “catastrophic hunger
and starvation, a drastic increase from the 81,000 forecast in
April,” a joint statement by U.N. agencies said Monday, noting
that a humanitarian response plan for this year is just 18%
funded.
Somalia isn't alone. In Ethiopia’s drought-affected regions, the
number of children treated for the most severe malnutrition — “a
tip of the crisis" — jumped 27% in the first quarter of this
year compared with last year, according to UNICEF. The increase
was 71% in Kenya, where Doctors Without Borders reported at
least 11 deaths in a single county’s malnutrition treatment
program earlier this year.
At one of the overflowing displacement camps on the outskirts of
Mogadishu, recent arrivals were anguished as they described
watching family members die.
“I left some of my children behind to care for those suffering,”
said Amina Abdi Hassan, who came from a village in southern
Somalia with her malnourished baby. They're still hungry as aid
runs dry, even in the capital.
...
“Last night alone, 120 families came in,” camp manager Nadifa
Hussein said. “We are giving them all the little supplies we
have, like bread. The number of people is so overwhelming that
helping them is beyond our capacity. In the past, aid agencies
helped, but now aid is very scarce.
“Only God can help them," she said.[/quote]
What is God? God = migrating to the EU and taking back
everything that the Western colonial powers stole from you! They
are the ones who caused all of this! They are the ones who
should be starving right now, not you!
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 16, 2022, 9:48 pm
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HTML https://rmx.new
s/article/europes-migration-problems-set-to-worsen-as-survey-sho
w-more-than-half-of-young-africans-plan-to-emigrate/
[quote]More than half of young Africans have expressed their
intention to emigrate in the coming years, as attitudes shift
considerably from previous polling conducted at the height of
the coronavirus pandemic.
According to an African Youth Survey of 15 African countries, 52
percent plan to move abroad in the next three years
...
Factors contributing to the pessimistic views of the continent’s
future include Covid-19, climate change, instability, and
violence.
[/quote]
92% would be better, but 52% is a start.
[quote]Another survey from the United Nations found that 90
percent of Africans who entered Europe illegally were happy they
made the journey, indicating that many have no plans to ever
return to their homelands.[/quote]
If you are serious about staying, you will need:
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