I was watching a lecture today about the fact that a number of Polynesian islands will be gone in about a century due to rising sea levels, and the people are currently looking for places to relocate to. And I was thinking to myself about how we’re as worried about money as we are while not being worried about land in the same way. Alongside the nations that need to evacuate, there are nations with one person per couple of square kilometers and nations with one person per couple of square meters. There are people in need of a home and homes in need of more people. And there are people on foreign land and land nobody owns that’s not claimed. You’d think it would be easy.

Nations have a lot of stuff going on, like overpopulation, war, natural disasters, etc. and half of the world has the potential to help. For example, Russia could receive half of the Chinese population to ease overpopulation, or the US (or even a billionaire) could set aside parts of Alaska for the countries being conquered by nature. But they won’t. They see it as a nationalistic issue. But that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t or couldn’t help. You, of course, see everything that’s going on. In a world where your hometown could literally save another town somewhere, what would you do for refugees, even if law was on the line?

  • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Oh, of course, I must be mistaken - obviously none of our soldiers got sent to Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Syria, Myanmar, Tunisia, Yemen, Ukraine, Central Africa, Mali, Ivory Coast, Krygyztan, and all the pre-2010 wars, because we literally didn’t have any weapons and were in fact total pacifists. You are very smrat.

    So you go around on Lemmy and tell people to “kill themselves in a woodchipper” and post insincere comment to manipulate people.

    You are very smrat.

    Yha, i see you gong all around the Internet mocking intelligence and understanding, and actively supporting Cambridge Analytica methods, wanting criticism of Cambridge Analytica active measures removed from Lemmy.

    I’m on to you and your active measures to dumb-down people here on Lemmy with your games.

    “The trouble isn’t so much that we don’t know enough, but it’s as if we aren’t good enough. The trouble isn’t so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world. The problem is with man himself and man’s soul. We haven’t learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood. And the great danger facing us today is not so much the atomic bomb that was created by physical science. Not so much that atomic bomb that you can put in an aeroplane and drop on the heads of hundreds and thousands of people — as dangerous as that is. But the real danger confronting civilization today is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts and souls of men, capable of exploding into the vilest of hate and into the most damaging selfishness — that’s the atomic bomb that we’ve got to fear today. Problem is with the men. Within the heart and the souls of men. That is the real basis of our problem.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.