Refugee Planet: There Have Never Been This Many Displaced People on Earth

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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/20/refugee-planet-there-have-never-been-many-displaced-people-earth

Half of refugees worldwide are children, new United Nations report finds
by
Nadia Prupis, staff writer

An unprecedented 65.3 million people have been displaced around the world due to war and persecution, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Monday.

The new figure is not only a 21st century record, it is also the first time that the numbers have surpassed 60 million—which means one in every 113 people worldwide is now either an asylum-seeker, internally displaced, or a refugee, the UN said. Half of them are children.

Over the past five years, forced displacement has increased quicker than ever due to long-standing conflicts in regions like Somalia and Afghanistan; "dramatic" escalations in newly destabilized countries like Syria, Yemen, and Ukraine; and a growing resistance from other nations to providing asylum for refugees, the UN reported.

"More people are being displaced by war and persecution and that's worrying in itself, but the factors that endanger refugees are multiplying too," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.

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1. Chaos.

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2. Intentional policy?

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3. The UN Refugee Treaty is openly violated by state interdiction and refoulement

The right to flee persecution and death is a basic human right. The duty to protect refugees is also universal. That seems to have been largely forgotten.

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5. It's much easier to use refugees

as scapegoats and political tool of division than to actually help them.

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8. The lessons of WW2 have been largely forgotten. This is an age of legal and humanitarian decline

Most western leaders don't even make lip service to refugees and international law. Everyone on the move is merely a "migrant," except for those with money. They're "investors," and welcome everywhere the American Express Card is.

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10. Every decision is based on money. Sad and ruinous.

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4. Because there has never been this many people on the Earth

It's only going to get worse in the coming decades.

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6. Unfortunately that looks like the graph ofa population

on the verge of a massive die off.

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7. Yep.

And it's going to get ugly soon.

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9. If it were a stock market index, one would call this a "bubble." What usually follows is a "crash."

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11. I studied evolutionary biology as an undergraduate.

Our planet has seen many innovative species experience growth like this and then crash.

We humans are nothing special. A hundred thousand years from now this civilization is little more than a peculiar mark in the geologic record.

I am human. Absurd optimism is part of my nature, so I do think there is a small possibility of a crash landing instead of an explosive cratering. But we will crash.

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15. Just one of many reasons why I became an antinatalist

and why I will never be cruel enough to bring any future innocent life against their will into this doomed hell hole.

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12. So many people, so many guns, so much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses.

It's a very bad mix.

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13. Think of it as a business oportunity. nt