"counted on the wildlife list?" WILDLIFE LIST?

@pamagain Yep, pretty wild isn't it? White Australia was worse than Sth Africa. When I worked on the communities some absolutely horrible stories, first hand accounts from elders, were relayed to me what the missionaries used to get up to. Too gross to relay here. We are not taught this in school.

@puff It's the ''superior white-ness'' behavior. Of course, it was here, too and of course, much of it was too horrible to contemplate and of course, there's great resistance to teaching about it! Let's just sweep it under the rug and fuggedaboudd it!

@pamagain I would add the behaviour of colonists and we see it again today in Gaza.

@puff Agreed.

@pamagain I find it quite ironic that if you are against white privilege then BRICS is the way forward. Because the "West" aka Western European culture are the white supremacists.
The real irony? I am part of this West so any war between BRICS nations and the "West" will mean I am on the wrong side. And I don't think maintaining this Western dominance is worth fighting for.

@puff BRICS???

@pamagain BRICS is an economic block created to establish a law based world order as opposed to the US rule based world order. They aim is to displace the $USD as world default currency and instead trade in local currencies. The US weaponising their currency via sanctions is what created it.
The US cutting off Russia from SWIFT, the international currency exchange system where every single transaction gets converted to $USD in the process (so they get a cut) freaked every country out. Very simply "If they can do it to Russia, they can do it to us". Many countries have been running to BRICS ever since, selling their US bonds and armouring themselves against US influence/ sanctions.

It is all totally self inflicted by the Biden admin, a massive shot in their own foot weaponising SWIFT.
If interested, plenty of info about BRICS. Wouldn't look at our media though, they hardly report anything about it. BRICS stands for Brazil Russia India China Sth Africa, the founding members. They are now the economic powerhouse, overtaking the G7 and G20 countries.
A law based order is attractive to many, far more than a US rules based order. The division has been made clearer by who supports Israel, convincing fence sitting nations like Saudi Arabia and Turkey which way to go.

You should be able to if people got it into their heads all these things are because of unplanned population growth.

Cause and effect and it will only get worse as our population continues to rise exponentially. All our environmental issues are anthropogenic. Funny thing is, because of rising home prices the areas most impacted by CC are those areas people often move to.

@pedigojr Of course. But my question is serious.,.,what will happen when millions of US citizens are pounding on the doors because their homes are under water? Isn't it time to begin planning?

@pamagain No one knows what will happen in the future. However, some of us try to look ahead and mitigate any future problems. When one moves to an area that has a history of storms the onus is on them. We should not be responsible for others failings. Yes, bad things can and do happen to people who try and plan ahead. A recent case you are describing was the fires in California where hundreds were left homeless. The way I see it we are responsible for our own citizens not the rest of the world. Taking in millions (the number is approx 2 million a year) of people from other countries will only make things harder for us. Most of us agree we should not be the worlds policeman but, we must also not be the world's social workers. We have enough problems at home.