World Refugee Day and worsening global crisis

[Gary Childress]

GENEVA, June 20 (UNHCR) – Stark warnings over the inability of the international community to cope with record numbers of people forced to flee spiralling wars and persecution provided the grim backdrop to events marking World Refugee Day on Saturday.

"We have reached a moment of truth," UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres declared in a statement.

"World stability is falling apart leaving a wake of displacement on an unprecedented scale. Global powers have become either passive observers or distant players in the conflicts driving so many innocent civilians from their homes."

http://www.unhcr.org/55842cb46.html

June 20 was World Refugee day so this is posted as FYI in belated honor of that day. I guess sometimes I lose sight of the human side of conflicts and what all the fighting does to ordinary people who just want to grow old with their families and enjoy this short time we all have in this world. What will happen to the innocent and where can they go to start new lives.

 

[Domen]

Nothing new here.

This "worsening global crisis" has started already ca. 60,000 years ago, when humans first expanded out of Africa.

Do not mistake short (up to few decades) periods of relative calmness during this continuous crisis for "no crisis".

What will happen to the innocent

Same things as those which happened to the innocent during the last 59,999 years of the worsening global crisis.

and where can they go to start new lives.

They can go to the United States of America, IMHO. And to Sweden as well. Canada and Australia perhaps too.

 

[Gary Childress]

I disagree. I think there is something new here. 2000 years ago no one would have even published a report on "refugees". Our collective human moral conscience has evolved over time.

 

[Domen]

2000 years ago no one would have even published a report on "refugees".

The Romans opened their borders to thousands of barbarian refugees fleeing the Huns and other barbarians.

And they published texts about that. Decades later, those refugees destroyed the Empire from the inside.

Our collective human moral conscience has evolved over time.

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[Gary Childress]

The Romans opened their borders to thousands of barbarian refugees fleeing the Huns and other barbarians.

And they published texts about that. Decades later, those refugees destroyed the Empire from the inside.

Don't be too pessimistic. Heck probably some of our ancestors contributed to destroying the Roman Empire.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

They can go to the United States of America, IMHO. And to Sweden as well. Canada and Australia perhaps too.

Why not Poland? After all many people seem to think it has a strong connection to N.Africa. So at least culturewise it could be a smooth sail for many migrants. I wouldnt recomend the Czech republic though since Czechs seem to fail succesfully integrate the gypsy minority for couple of centuries..

 

[Domen]

Poland has recently let in 1500 Syrian refugees. Refugees can into space of Poland, apparently.

Don't be too pessimistic.

I'm not! After the Western Civilization collapses, some other civilization will spawn on its ruins.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Global powers have become either passive observers or distant players in the conflicts driving so many innocent civilians from their homes.

Would prefer they become more active participants?

 

[Domen]

That's the normal endless cycle of birth, life and death of civilizations. Only China seems immune to it.

 

[Gary Childress]

Would prefer they become more active participants?

I guess by "active" they had something more humanitarian in mind? But you are right to some extent. The UN should probably count themselves lucky that the global powers aren't taking a more detrimental role in things.