Climate refugees or overpopulation escapees?

| August 22, 2020 | Leave a Comment

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Date of Publication: August 3

Year of Publication: 2020

Publication City: Gothenburg, Sweden

Publisher: The Overpopulation Project

Author(s): Philip Cafaro

In recent years, migrants fleeing overpopulation and lack of economic opportunity have been rebranded as “climate refugees” by corporate media looking to justify open borders.

But expanding migration will simply fuel continued population growth, leading to greater resource consumption, higher greenhouse gas emissions and worse climate change. It’s a Ponzi scheme perpetuated by falsehoods that’s bound to end badly. Consider one recent example of this rapidly expanding genre, “The Great Climate Migration,” the cover story in last week’s New York Times Magazine, whose own author admits that climate change is a trivial factor in driving global immigration.

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