Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders
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#3The border is the climate.
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#4>The Dream of Open Borders Is Real—in the High Arctic
For whom is open borders a dream?
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#5> Svalbard’s geopolitics provide an imperfect but alternative vision of how places can be governed, whom they can accommodate, and how communities can form.
Hardly. It's a rugged community of 2300 people. That's not a model for alternative government.
> "This is not a cradle to grave society,” one of Askholt’s colleagues told me.
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#6The border is the climate.
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#7>The Dream of Open Borders Is Real—in the High Arctic For whom is open borders a dream?
For me. I'd love to see open borders, where everyone has the freedom to move to where they can achieve their goals and dreams, rather than being restricted to the country where they happened to be born. How many Einsteins have been born in Africa, but denied the chance to make the contribution to humanity that they could have?
(And before the cynics note that open borders are incompatible with welfare states, that's not necessarily true, and the path to open borders is a long one, not a sudden change we can make without massive upheaval right now.)
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#8> Svalbard’s geopolitics provide an imperfect but alternative vision of how places can be governed, whom they can accommodate, and how communities can form. Hardly. It's a rugged community of 2300 people. That's not a model for alternative government. > "This is not a cradle to grave society,” one of Askholt’s colleagues told me.
Not only that but it provides no social services, so there’s no government cost or burden to immigration. Similar to how the US was in its early history but contrast to how the US and Europe is now.
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#9The border is the climate.
And the 1000 kilometers of sea that surrounds it.
Re: Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders
#10>The Dream of Open Borders Is Real—in the High Arctic For whom is open borders a dream?
For me. I'd love to see open borders, where everyone has the freedom to move to where they can achieve their goals and dreams, rather than being restricted to the country where they happened to be born. How many Einsteins have been born in Africa, but denied the chance to make the contribution to humanity that they could have? (And before the cynics note that open borders are incompatible with welfare states, that's…
You're a hypocrite if you don't open borders into your home for the homeless, then.