Interesting read in the Guardian. Let's have a butchers. (Emphasis mine).
Up to 20 million Bangladeshis may be forced to leave the country in the next 40 years because of climate change, one of the country's most senior politicians has said. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh's finance minister, called on Britain and other wealthy countries to accept millions of displaced people.
Hmmm. Funny. I read Australia and Saudi Arabia had both gone a bit cold (ha!) on the climate change scene too. Aren't they wealthy? And what about India, for that matter? They can afford to run a space programme. Just like America.
In a clear signal to the US and Europe that developing countries are not prepared to accept a weak deal at next week's Copenhagen climate summit, Abdul Muhith said Bangladesh wanted hosts for managed migration as people began to abandon flooded and storm-damaged coastal areas.
Hosts? Uh oh. That means
guests. Anyone want to bet that we'll be threatened with further mass immigration and a population of 500 million if we continue to doubt Snot Muncher's "science"? That way if you point out that we're full, you can be a racist too, as well as a flat-earther, Hitler, Mussolini, a child molester and a Creationist. According to Labour and the Righteous we're all most of those things already, so brining "racist" back into proceedings as a name for anyone who disagrees is very much on the cards.
"Twenty million people could be displaced [in Bangladesh] by the middle of the century," Abdul Muhith told the Guardian. "We are asking all our development partners to honour the natural right of persons to migrate. We can't accommodate all these people – this is already the densest [populated] country in the world," he said.
And why is that, Mr Muhith? Could it be because they have too many fucking babies? And if these people are still alive, evidently there are enough resources in terms of food, water and medicine. Never mind migration. Try some rubber johnnies.
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh and other low-lying areas of Asia are leaving their communities as their homes and land become inundated. But this is the first time that a senior politician from a developing country has openly proposed that those countries considered responsible for climate change should take physical responsibility for the refugees created.
Considered responsible? By whom? And who
created the refugees? Again, rubber johnnies will do the trick.
Abdul Muhith said managed migration could be positive for Bangladesh and the west: "We can help in the sense of giving the migrants some training, making them fit for existence in some other country.
That's very kind of you sir. Now here's a
really radical idea: train your people for your
own market. Build factories and offices and
become a developed country yourselves. That would be
very positive for Bangladesh. Kuwait lifted their game and they had a mad dictator fond of gas attacks coming after them not long before. Not to mention India and China, both highly industrial nations. India having one of the most thriving I.T sectors in the world. Hyderabad has become one of the world's most prominent hubs for outsourcing.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, said the Bangladeshi migration proposal should be taken seriously. "This is clearly a warning signal from Bangladesh and similar countries to the developed countries. And I think it has to be taken very seriously. If you accept that those countries that have really not been responsible for causing the problem, and have a legitimate basis for help from the developed countries, then one form of help would certainly be facilitation of immigration from these countries to the developed world," he said.
Economist alert! Yes, it's a warning that those countries are
full, and their finance ministers are trying to shrink their respective populations. Like finance directors shrink workforces. As for "the problem", I believe we've spent the last fortnight talking about the lack of accuracy in the data
pertaining to "the problem". Well, some of us have. Pals in the MSM have been fairly dutiful in their downgrading of the story that we're not quite doomed yet. Although I've got a trip to Tesco's coming up this afternoon. I'll get back to you if I make it back without drowning.
He said there was a danger of a backlash in rich countries. "The climate in Europe, North America and Australia is not conducive to a relaxed debate about increasing migration. There is a worry doors will shut if we start that discussion," he said.
It's that climate racism again! All by evil current or former capitalist nations too (the brutes). And didn't some smart bastard of a similarly charitable position once say that to measure climate was to measure worldwide? Apparently it's all gone local again. There'sh holesh in yer shtory, schmucks.
Meanwhile, some blokes have been busy
highlighting the wholly new phenomenon of thinner air up tall mountains. Who'd have fucking thunk it?
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