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Some good pictures here of people living a different life from us in NZ:
https://apnews.com/article/panama-island...9534405a84
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Poor people - that's going to be such an upheaval for them, so different to the life on a tiny island. But I think that process will be repeated around the world as sea levels rise.
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There have been years of warning about climate change refugees, but I suspect most governments have simply taken no notice. Life will be very different in the coming decades, for a lot of nations. Displaced people have to go somewhere...
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05-06-2024, 09:56 AM
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Yes, they will be coming here as well, not sure how we should react to large scale incursions if that is what happens.
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On the one hand. we can't just leave them to suffer surely, but on the other we're a small country & can't cope with too many more people.
Humans are idiots...
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05-06-2024, 01:28 PM
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But what if for the last hundred years or so they have been breeding indiscriminately, killing and eating all their native animals and fish, polluting their eco-system by using petroleum products en-mass, making large numbers of concrete buildings and seem to have no real awareness of global warming/climate change and only now are being made aware of the problem and now they are on their way over here to stuff up our "carefully looked after land" by their uncaring presence as they flee their population induced catastrophe.
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(05-06-2024, 01:28 PM)zqwerty Wrote: But what if for the last hundred years or so they have been breeding indiscriminately, killing and eating all their native animals and fish, polluting their eco-system by using petroleum products en-mass, making large numbers of concrete buildings and seem to have no real awareness of global warming/climate change and only now are being made aware of the problem and now they are on their way over here to stuff up our "carefully looked after land" by their uncaring presence as they flee their population induced catastrophe. Well, at least we're now close to having a Fast Track approval system which will streamline the infrastructure changes required to accommodate all those climate refugees. What could possibly go wrong? /s
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