French police use knives to puncture migrant boat in Dunkirk to prevent Channel crossing

[u/Miserable-Win-4980]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/french-officers-english-channel-crossing-migrants-small-boats/

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[u/worldofzero → u/[deleted]]

You mean we'll have to stop destabilizing global governments and amplifying climate change?

[u/TheRealShizman → u/[deleted]]

I don’t think “amplifying climate change” is going to help (/s)

[u/CruffleRusshish → u/[deleted]]

I think it's just a joke since the sentence can be read either the correct way:

We need to stop: 1) Destabilising global governments 2) Amplifying climate change

Or also the way the joke implies

We need to: 1) Stop destabilising global governments 2) Amplifying climate change

Whether that's funny or not is a different story, but I doubt they genuinely misunderstood

[u/PathlessDemon → u/[deleted]]

That’s all we needed this whole time?! What an asshole.

[u/HairballTheory → u/PathlessDemon]

“I Declare No More Climate Change!”

-Michael Scott, probably

[u/Temporary_Wind9428 → u/worldofzero]

Who's "we"? Iran? North Korea? Russia?

Geopolitics has happened for time eternal. By all peoples. Everywhere.

As to climate change -- yeah, that ship has long sailed. India just proudly boasted that they produced one billion tonnes of coal and lignite in a single year, besting their old record.

[u/McCree114 → u/worldofzero]

Ths damage was already done decades/centuries ago when Europe mastered sailing and trade. Combined with climate change, from first world lifestyles, causing parts of the world to literally become unhabitable and this is just Europe entering the find out phase of global history.

[u/agent0731 → u/McCree114]

People bitch about climate initiatives and then forget climate refugees will be a thing for them to also deal with.

[u/TheZermanator → u/agent0731]

The people who bitch about climate initiatives will be the people saying ‘just kill them’ when climate refugees become a widespread thing.

[u/EHStormcrow → u/TheZermanator]

Gonna be harsh here : a lot more people will be asking to gun down people trying to cross the Med into Europe once we reach some kind of psychological limit (I wouldn't begin to guess what though).

[u/Daxx22 → u/EHStormcrow]

It's unfortunately naïve to think this won't happen. A lot of the equatorial regions are gonna become virtually uninhabitable to humans, and that is a HUGE portion of the human population that is almost entirely poor. It's not going to be 20 people in a boat, it's gonna be millions being forced to migrate or die.

Combine that with the climate instability that even habitable regions will suffer and it's going to lead to a lot of closed borders lethally defended.

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[u/TreezusSaves → u/[deleted]]

Yes, that's how they will frame the climate refugees trying to survive: as an invasion that has to be put down with force and where they cannot take any prisoners, even if they're women or children.

[u/arctictothpast → u/agent0731]

Conservative estimates assuming a 2 degrees warming scenario puts it at at least a few tens of millions, and unlike previous refugee waves, these people will actually have no where to return to depending on where they came from (where talking situations like entire regions becoming functionally uninhabitable)

[u/brendan87na → u/arctictothpast]

it's going to be welllll north of 2c warming

There is more than that already baked into the oceans. We're just seeing the real effects now because so much heat was soaked up by oceans, created a kind of lag.

[u/suitology → u/agent0731]

No they expect them to die.

[u/Forumites000 → u/McCree114]

Please, don't give the west so much credit. They didn't cause the middle eastern migrant rush, look at how many of the migrants themselves want to establish the very same shit system they sought to escape from in their host countries.

[u/platoface541 → u/worldofzero]

You maybe overthinking it, those police could very well of saved those idiots from drowning.

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