Davos on Migrant
Crisis: The Worst is Yet to Come, Posted by Natalie
Myers, 1/25/16
As
the World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos, Switzerland, a number of issues
are on the table for discussion, most importantly the migrant issue.
The
group’s 2016 Global Risks report named the migration crisis the biggest risk
because of its high likelihood, with climate change also ranking high due to
the potential impact.
The
recent refugee levels currently are about 50% higher than they were at the
height of World War II, with around 60 million displaced people from Syria to
Sudan.
Davos
leader, Klaus Schwab, predicts that the global economic crisis slowly forming
due to plunging stock markets and uncertainty with China will eventually lead
to a tsunami of immigration.
Schwab
points to the rapidly dropping prices of commodities as the starting point for
this immigration tsunami, noting that many countries rely on the income from
oil for example. He points out that if some 1 billion people in Africa move
north as a result of the dropping oil prices that can no longer support their
countries, this will create an even larger immigration nightmare for Europe.
Schwab
also believes that technological advances will eventually put millions out of
work and lead to the dissolution of the middle class, which he calls a “pillar
of our democracies.”
Despite
these grim predictions for the future of the world, Schwab still points the
finger at Republican candidate Donald Trump for playing on the fears and
emotions of American people.
Editor's
commentary:
Malthus said "Population expands to consume all available resources,
checked by war, famine and disease." Turns out this applies to third world
nations, but does not apply to affluent societies who voluntarily limit their
own population. The situation now is populations in the third world,
artificially expanded by external resources (oil revenues, and other
interactions with the first world) are to the point where a minor economic
downturn forces them into the war, famine or disease mode, thus the desire to
migrate.
The
problem will not be fixed by migration, and liberal policies on migration will
only subsidize further population growth in the third world while destroying
the first world. The solution is
containment of the third world, while transforming these cultures into
productive, self-sustaining societies. Easy to say, tough to do.
Comments
Schwab is
absolutely right about the need to transform 3rd world cultures into
productive self-sustaining societies. These folks need better, less corrupt
governments, a free market economy, no death taxes and personal property
rights. They need sanitation, clean water, DDT and penicillin. They need to
grow their own food. They need honest leaders to allow them to be
self-supporting with the family as the central economic unit.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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