Convienent Excuse: Will Refugees Now Use Climate Change Excuse?

by Barry Artiste | June 21, 2008 at 08:55 am | 466 views | 2 comments | 10 recommendations

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

A "Convenient Excuse" as a side dish to Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth"?   granted immigration is  beneficial to the "Buffet of  Cultures" served equally amongst other World countries.  But using the "Environment" as a "Refugee Claim" to come to any country certainly  will "Dilute" an ever expanding Menu of Immigrant applicants who bring their own  "unique dish" to the  immigration table. 

Granted this small island country rates in one of the UN's Michelin Guide as truly needy and we should do what we can for them, but perhaps this will now open the Western Worlds Bistros to other of the Worlds less desirable "No Shirt, No Tie, No Service" diners who will see this as an opportunity to storm the Maitre 'd with this excuse, leaving those with legitimate claims behind the Red Velvet Rope, as these new Diners pass them by.

These new Convenient Environment Excuse countries who will take full advantage of bypassing the Maitre'd list will be countries suffering under self imposed "Environmental Kitchen Nightmares" , such as clear cutting forests, causing erosion, spotty human rights records, non existent environmental safeguards in their quest to expand their industries and economy regardless of the environmental consequences.

Perhaps these despot dictator driven countries Third Rate Head Chefs for the masses should pore over  our Western Societies Environmental and Human Rights Recipe Books first to understand how to make a successful banquet for their own people, instead of ordering out. Granted our Recipe Book has some liberal ingredients added, but when without, improvise.

Failure to do it according to the Western Recipe Book, will surely end up with a population dying from Environmental Food Poisoning.

Now that is a Menu, we can all read from, even the Kiddies Menu comes with colour pictures.

The Michelin Guide lists one Cardinal Rule, Too many Chefs spoil the Soup, perhaps Diners in these Countries should rise up and show their displeasure with the current menu and turf the Head Chef, instead of relying on the Worlds Iron Chefs to do the cooking for them.

In ending, diners unsatisfied with buffet set before them must learn to cook, and cook well, because this take out window is closed, except for those who abide by the Western World's menu first.

TORONTO -Before the South Pacific swallows up his 33 islands, the President of the Kirbati made a plaintive, Earth Day plea to the world. Faulting climate change for salt-water erosion and crippling drought, Anote Tong begged the international community earlier this month to absorb his 110,000 residents before his country was washed off the map. "We have to find the next-highest spot," Mr. Tong said. "At the moment there's only the coconut trees."

While Mr. Tong worries about the fate of his islanders, others quibble about what they should be called. In earlier times, the i-Kirbati would have likely been designated as forced migrants, but more recently others have been using a more politically charged -- and deeply contested -- description: climate-change refugees.

A growing movement of academics, NGOs and activists insist that industrialized nations owe the displaced some form of restitution, either in the form of aid or a kind of human offsetting, in which major carbon-producing nations would accept these so-called refugees.

Taken to the extreme, the scenario would have massive global implications: Citing greenhouse gases as a cause, a UN agency last year estimated that there are already 25 million people who have moved as a result of environmental degradation; other agencies warn the number could climb as high as 200 million in the next 50 years. Victims displaced by drought, starvation or crop failure could claim this kind of refugee status, even if government corruption or incompetence -- not global warming --led to their plight.

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at 10:56 on June 21st, 2008

Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff. Always a good fun read

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Thanks Politisite, certainly "Food for Thought" when those who wish to take advantage of our good nature and democracy soon turn on us, wishing for the old days, old days meaning their former home to be implemented into our table linens (fabric) of society.

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