Most human beings just want a decent life for themselves and
their families. For many, this is impossible due to climate change, despotic
governments, corporate greed, unequal distribution of wealth, corruption,
ineffectual governments and more. Hence unprecedented migration, which won’t go
away.
Instead of addressing root causes, governments are using
sandbag solutions in hopes that this will stem the flood. They blame immigrants
and fail to recognize their own culpability.
We also, as individuals, have some responsibility to our
human neighbors. We live in a culture in which luxuries have become
necessities. Yet for the cost of an annual subscription to Netflix or a monthly
dinner out, an individual could pay for the education of a needy child in a
poor country.
I wish we were better at solving our problems than fighting about
them.
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