If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
How to stop small-boat migration.
No one wants to leave their home.
By home, I mean, roots. Migration occurs because the land can’t support you and/or some bastard in charge wants to see your bollocks go through the mangle. That person might be a politician or a factory owner etc. You choose.
So you leave your family and head off to earn enough money to support your village, despite failing harvests. You undertake a gruelling journey to the coast, spend the rest of your money to climb into a boat that isn’t fit for purpose.
You have never been so scared in your life and assuming you survive this trip you still have the prejudice to overcome.
But if you received enough to make your village viable, from a concerned donor who had so much money, he can’t count it? Just a million from the billions.
How wonderful.
But we are not done there yet
When global warming brings the Gulf Stream to its knees, there will be another scenario. Here’s the picture, lifted from my collection, I heard the river laugh.
Jolly Parties Water warms, Density drops. Ice melts. Density drops. Water too light to sink Means no replacement, so The Gulf Stream heat conveyor That has warmed Us since the last ice age, Throws its switch to ‘off’. 50 million displaced by cold and hunger Move south and meet The sub-Saharan 100 million Displaced by heat and hunger, Moving north. That will be a jolly party. Who will pay for the Champagne?
Send me a mail, under contact and I’ll send you the free to copy PDF of I heard the river laugh.
Clive La Pensée 