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What would you do for refugees? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 months ago by shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
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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?

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[–] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I honestly had no clue that the UK would still use miles, no wonder you folks voted for Brexit.

Age 25 to 34 in Belgium has 50% with higher education so we're pretty fine on intellectual basis.

If you really think Belgium has sent massive amount of military towards other places to have a meaningful impact, then you're high as a kite. We did not have the funding. We have been underinvesting in NATO structurally. We barely invested in our own military. It all just decayed.

We're one of the worst students in the classroom when it comes to military.

I know your country's people are intellectually absent enough to vote Nigel Farage into power, but god damn you know nothing about Belgium.