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Study says Europeans fear migration more than climate change – DW – 05/08/2024

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Study says Europeans fear migration more than climate change – DW – 05/08/2024

www.dw.com /en/europeans-fear-migration-more-than-climate-change-study-finds/a-69029274

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Climate change is going to create millions upon millions of migrants
- We should tell right wingers that if they don't stop climate change there's gonna be more migrants. That will unironically work better than warning them about the world ending.
  
  Their solution will be "shoot migrants" not "solve climate change".
  
  They already know the threats, they're just easily duped and believe it's all made up or that the claimed threats are exaggerated.
- You can say no to migrants. Just dont let them in. Its that easy.
  
  Yes. Just tell millions upon millions of suffering people they can't cross the invisible line to find refuge.
  Genius strategy.
  
  Wat?
  
  Are there no prisons? And union workhouses, are they still in operation?
  Fuck off and watch "A Christmas Carol" again... but this time try and realize that Ebenezer Scrooge isn't meant to be a role model.
  
  That's some seriously deplorable bullshit
  
  Just let them slowly cook in the global oven that our industrial consumerist society has created?
  
  Oh, you must mean the ones who migrate the properly legal way?
It would just be too bad if a bunch of people from, say, Africa and Asia, decided that it was about time to civilize those backward European savages and set up colonies on their land...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Europe has seen a sharp rise in the share of people who say that reducing immigration should be a top government priority, according to a study published Wednesday.
At the same time, there was less desire to prioritize fighting climate change in the same countries, according to the survey commissioned by the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation think tank.
"Nowhere is this reversal more striking than in Germany, which now leads the world with the highest share of people who want their government to focus on reducing immigration — topping all other priorities — and now nearly twice as high as fighting climate change," the report read.
The authors found that the greatest perceived threat globally was war and violent conflict, followed by poverty and hunger, and then climate change.
"In the past four years, this perception has remained highest in Latin America, lowest in Asia and has steadily increased in Europe since 2020 — particularly in Germany, the report said.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chair of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, said the figures were "a wake-up call for all democratic governments."
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Pretty much everything people opposing immigration said came true.
- Nah, the capitalists just pitted them and migrating people towards tension for a smoke screen while making working class life harder overall. Immigration opposers have been and consistently keep on being wrong with their paranoia.
  
  So propping up the housing market by keeping population artificially increasing or keeping wages low by hiring lower paid foreign workers isn't bad for the working population? What about increasing crime or cost to the government. Both of which have been recorded in government stats (though one is Danish).
  "The capitalist" if anything want immigration. You want higher wages, better jobs and cheaper housing you want less immigration.
  You're all blinded by what you wish the world was like.
- Imagine believing this bullshit.
  Delusional
The nation that brought us The Third Reich isn't eager to have outsiders on their soil?! This is more shocking than discovering that allowing your teen son to sleep over at Brian Peck's house will likely result in Jr needing a lifetime of trauma therapy

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