Study says Europeans fear migration more than climate change – DW – 05/08/2024 (www.dw.com)

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[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 66 points 3 months ago

Climate change is going to create millions upon millions of migrants

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Their solution will be "shoot migrants" not "solve climate change".

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

They already know the threats, they're just easily duped and believe it's all made up or that the claimed threats are exaggerated.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Wait until India implodes because of water scarcity.

Millions will become a billion.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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...

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 3 months ago

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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[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee -2 points 3 months ago

Pretty much everything people opposing immigration said came true.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Making a class without agency always leads to crime, it doesn't matter where they're from

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

What does that even mean?

[-] Spazz@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 3 months ago

Imagine believing this bullshit.

Delusional

[-] Jafoo@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago

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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