Posted by Ann Corcoran on August 12, 2015
The people who chose to build their town on an island are now whining that the bad old USA needs to save them as the island is supposedly sinking.
News flash! Islands submerge and often reappear again over centuries the world over as part of the dynamism that is our planet.
Back in the ’70’s I wrote a report about islands off the coast of Virginia that had whole towns on them (hotels, schools, cemeteries) that began to be uninhabitable by the early 1900’s as they were buffeted by major east coast storms (before cars were widely used! before global warming!). The people simply recognized that it would be foolish to stay, and moved inland. They didn’t cry out to the federal government to save them from their original choice.
Now we have these whiny Alaskan islanders who wonder if the federal government will leave them there to die!
Alaska’s Kivalina Island.
Here is the news at HNGN:
Kivalina is located on a very thin barrier reef island between the Chukchi Sea and the Kivalina Lagoon, in the northwest of Alaska, above the Arctic Circle. And it may not be there in a decade, thanks to climate change.
In approximately 10 years, the village of Kivalina in northwestern Alaska could be submerged, giving its approximately 400 residents the ubiquitous honor of becoming the first climate change refugees of America, so much so that the U.S. government says it may be too dangerous to live there.
Waahhhh! Is the US government going to leave us here to die?
“If we’re still here in 10 years time we either wait for the flood and die, or just walk away and go someplace else. The U.S. government imposed this Western lifestyle on us, gave us their burdens and now they expect us to pick everything up and move it ourselves. What kind of government does that?” Swan (a local elected official) asked while speaking to the BBC.
You pick it up and move it yourself! And, maybe whaling is going the way of the buggy whip anyway!
One more case in the PR campaign that is building for governments (the US taxpayer mostly!) to take care of ‘helpless’ people worldwide while they bash America!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/alaskan-island-residents-looking-to-become-first-american-climate-refugees/
Obviously this HNGN article is sort of a mixing up two different definitions of ‘refugees.’ If these people live on an Alaskan island, they are already in America. When people in New Orleans had to move in the wake of Katrina, they were not refugees in the sense that we talk about international refugees.
Human-powered climate change and the US absurdly welcoming ‘climate refugees’ aside, many years ago when environmentalism, then called 'conservation,' began to take off, partly triggered by the decimation of exotic birds in the Everglades to adorn women’s hats, there were in the forefront some noted conservative conservationists. Since then the Left, like the Sierra Club's Multicultural Marxist leaders, have co-opted environmentalism to use for their own agenda. By the same token, other anti-environmental forces, like incredible wealthy global corporations, who can, among other things, slosh tons of propaganda money onto the Internet, use the Left's takeover of environmental issues as a perfect excuse to oppose all things environmental.
Prior to the environmental laws of the 1970s--accompanied by the same corporate squeals we hear today--there were, for example, rivers and lakes that had pretty much become open toxic sewers. Today many have been made ‘fishable and swimmable’ again (gains now being overwhelmed by endless open-borders population growth), some of them now featuring tourist boardwalks lined with small businesses. Of course such businesses were not in existence in the 70s to lobby for river cleanup. As far as endangered species, it was a miracle that the historic and iconic bison was at the last minute saved from extinction. Whether on the political left, right or center, very few groups seem to actually care about the critters and plants outside of their own feverishly political Me! Me! Me! human agenda, although a healthy, non-overpopulated, First World, European-based environment is highly desirable from a solely human-centered point of view.
Obviously anyone who truly cares about the environment, the economy, our Western culture, our Western freedoms or the lives of their own great-grandkids needs to work for a total in-migration moratorium, with shutting down our insanely suicidal 'refugee' resettlement program being at or near the top of the list.
In the meantime, maybe the entire continent of Africa can claim it is sinking. Which of course it is, under tons and tons of hungry angry human flesh. The same overpopulation that we have been told for decades by the our Open-Borders Overlords is now 'leveling off and will soon begin dropping.' How’s that for perfect timing when it comes to not worrying about open borders to the West? What luck for our anti-Western elites!
Obviously this HNGN article is sort of a mixing up two different definitions of ‘refugees.’ If these people live on an Alaskan island, they are already in America. When people in New Orleans had to move in the wake of Katrina, they were not refugees in the sense that we talk about international refugees.
Human-powered climate change and the US absurdly welcoming ‘climate refugees’ aside, many years ago when environmentalism, then called 'conservation,' began to take off, partly triggered by the decimation of exotic birds in the Everglades to adorn women’s hats, there were in the forefront some noted conservative conservationists. Since then the Left, like the Sierra Club's Multicultural Marxist leaders, have co-opted environmentalism to use for their own agenda. By the same token, other anti-environmental forces, like incredible wealthy global corporations, who can, among other things, slosh tons of propaganda money onto the Internet, use the Left's takeover of environmental issues as a perfect excuse to oppose all things environmental.
Prior to the environmental laws of the 1970s--accompanied by the same corporate squeals we hear today--there were, for example, rivers and lakes that had pretty much become open toxic sewers. Today many have been made ‘fishable and swimmable’ again (gains now being overwhelmed by endless open-borders population growth), some of them now featuring tourist boardwalks lined with small businesses. Of course such businesses were not in existence in the 70s to lobby for river cleanup. As far as endangered species, it was a miracle that the historic and iconic bison was at the last minute saved from extinction. Whether on the political left, right or center, very few groups seem to actually care about the critters and plants outside of their own feverishly political Me! Me! Me! human agenda, although a healthy, non-overpopulated, First World, European-based environment is highly desirable from a solely human-centered point of view.
Obviously anyone who truly cares about the environment, the economy, our Western culture, our Western freedoms or the lives of their own great-grandkids needs to work for a total in-migration moratorium, with shutting down our insanely suicidal 'refugee' resettlement program being at or near the top of the list.
In the meantime, maybe the entire continent of Africa can claim it is sinking. Which of course it is, under tons and tons of hungry angry human flesh. The same overpopulation that we have been told for decades by the our Open-Borders Overlords is now 'leveling off and will soon begin dropping.' How’s that for perfect timing when it comes to not worrying about open borders to the West? What luck for our anti-Western elites!
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