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   John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 00:20:08 JST John Carlos Baez

   When global warming gets bad enough to create millions of refugees, just imagine how nasty the EU and US will become. They may just ship people out to the desert to die.

   Oh wait, you don't have to imagine! It's happening already:

   "A year-long joint investigation by The Washington Post, Lighthouse Reports and a consortium of international media outlets shows how the European Union and individual European nations are supporting and financing aggressive operations by governments in North Africa to detain tens of thousands of migrants each year and dump them in remote areas, often barren deserts.

   European funds have been used to train personnel and buy equipment for units implicated in desert dumps and human rights abuses, records and interviews show. Migrants have been pushed back into the most inhospitable parts of North Africa, exposing them to abandonment with no food or water, kidnapping, extortion, sale as human chattel, torture, sexual violence and, in the worst instances, death."

   The full story is here: https://archive.is/1tEgl

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