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Mass Migration Portends Fascism and Biosphere Collapse Unless We Share

July 8, 2018August 25, 2021 Dr. Glen Barry 3 Comments

Decades of ignoring the converging crises of climate change, ecosystem loss, nationalism, and inequity are reaching their logical conclusion as Europe and America are threatened with inundation by desperate peoples. Not all who wish to come will be able to be housed, and certainly not those arriving illegally, without pulling down host societies. Yet we…

Earth Meanders Essay, General Sustainability, Top Picks, Uncategorized

Europe’s Refugee Crisis: Mass Migration is Biosphere Collapse

September 13, 2015August 25, 2021 Dr. Glen Barry 15 Comments

Refugees and economic migrants currently flowing into Europe and elsewhere globally are the direct result of over-population, ecosystem collapse, climate change, militarism and inequity. Mass migration has the potential to overrun entire societies and human civilization, and even threatens to collapse the biosphere. Migration must be controlled; and refugees and economic migrants assisted to return…

Earth Meanders Essay, General Sustainability, Top Picks

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