Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Europe's Climate Urgency: Driven by Green Ideals or Fear of an African Refugees?

masatoshinishimura.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–12 of 12 posts

Re: Europe's Climate Urgency: Driven by Green Ideals or Fear of an African Refugees?

#11

Post by karmakurtisaani »

Tarsul wrote: post #8

Why do we Europeans care? Because climate change is destroying the foundations of our life. The real question should be why are others caring less? But back to us Europeans: Since we already have "basically" everything we want (including low inequality), we can afford to look forward to dangers that lurk only on the horizon. Also, our politicians do listen to their voters (at least sometimes) because media is less co…

Also, the climate disaster is a continuum. The more prepared you are now, the more prepared you will be in the future when things are worse.

Re: Europe's Climate Urgency: Driven by Green Ideals or Fear of an African Refugees?

#12

Post by aurizon »

hagbard_c wrote: post #9
aurizon wrote: post #3

This is like scorpion-turtle parable crossing a river. Europe is on a raft. At some point the raft begins to sink = all drown. They need to save Africa to save themselves.

Africa does not need saving, it is a huge continent - look it up on a map and notice that you can fit USA, China, India, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, The UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece [1] in its area and still have 0.1% of its land mass left to build yourself a Singapore - and it can take care of itself and its own just as long as they manage to…

Some sort of Religious reform is needed. The catholic church was like this, until Gutenberg and the printing press and local language translations spread reading/writing and more or less eliminated religion. These religions decided to inflict their cursed aspect on African = 'saving' them - it was rank religious imperialism and I wish the Africans had killed them all. They did the same in Canada - these assorted priests were supported by the governments of the day because they worked for free and they imposed a tyrannical rule over the Aboriginals that lingers to this day. The same was done in Africa, some countries did better and a reasonable government ensued. Most were extractive monopolies - native worked and colonialists ran the show and when they revolted the colonialists were expelled. This goes on now in South African and Zimbabwe where the Boer remnants are moving out as well as being killed by random killings. China has imported millions of AK47 and related rifles and equipped the Africans to help the killing. Do not see China as a friend of Africa, they see Africa as loot.
Post reply on HN