President Donald Trump gets a huge amount of criticism because of his policy regarding immigrants and asylum seekers. That's fair, because the global warming issue is the basic cause for the troubled situations in some parts of the world. Situations that lead to public relocations globally.
Denying the correlation between global warming and relocation and tense political situations (that are raised by increased poverty because of deforestation, drought, et cetera) is foolish. A stupid and irresponsible thing to do. It's only a matter of time before the people of California will leave their state to find a more suitable piece of land to live on, because of the environmental situation. The foreign situation becomes a local situation, and at that point there's no denying the problem at hand anymore.
In The Netherlands, politicians fail to form a government. After the elections, it has become clear that the left and right wing couldn't be more further apart... While the right wing parties lost a fair amount of voters, the left wing has gained in popularity, but not enough to be the side that is the largest in the country, while the right wing parties are still in the drivers seat and made irrational claims during the elections. Claims involving closing borders for immigrants and raising budgets for defence and police. Meanwhile, our kids do not get the schooling they deserve and cannot participate in cultural activities, because of cuts in that department. And now? Re-elections or seeking for help with extreme right wing Christian parties, that are equally 'bad' as other religious parties that want to rule out other religions. Most people in The Netherlands really don't want to be thrown back into the fifties, where women had a hard time being self-sufficient. Even now, The Netherlands is facing difficulties in equal rights between men and women. Women are underpaid and fathers only get a two day leave after the birth of their child!
Back to environmental issues and political claims...
VVD (the biggest party in the country) attracted extreme right voters with the promise to close borders for basically all non-European immigrants. Now the elections are over, they simply cannot uphold their promise because of the basic human rights legislation and agreements, such as the Geneva convention.
Groen Links (the biggest left wing party) does not want to govern together with the VVD, because VVD wants to set aside this elementary human righs convention. And they're damn right. Groen Links is an environmental aware party, that realises that the asylum seekers that flood Europe, are in need of help. Mainly because of dangerous situations that became painfully obvious and are caused by global warming.
For how long can we all blame some terrorist maniacs for the huge underlying issue? Hurray, Groen Links, for this eye-opener. Maybe someday mister Trump will be known as the biggest terrorist that ever walked the earth. Not only because of his claims about terrorists, but mainly because of his ignorance regarding environmental issues.
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