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It is more likely that population pressures, the lack of opportunites and conditions of tyranny and oppression will have generated waves of migration to the North and the West, which will be impossible to contain. Our successors are likely to see mass migrations on an unprecedented scale. Such movements have already begun, with the 'boat people' migrating from the Far East, Mexicans slipping over the border into the United States, and Asians and Africans migrating to Europe. It is not difficult to imagine at a future date, innumerable hungry and desperate immigrants landing in their boats on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. Similarly, massive migration from Latin America to the United States is to be expected, while population pressure in China may cause spillovers into empty Siberia. As we have already suggested, the rising of the sea level as a result of the greenhouse effect could greatly increase migration pressures, for example in Bangladesh and Egypt.
It is therefore urgently required that the economic conditions in the poor countries are improved, and that at the same time effective means of population control are introduced. We would like to stress that reductions in economic disparity and aid to development of a wise and cooperative character, rather than a mere humanitarian gesture should be of fundamenal importance to the rich countries in their own inierest. This is hardly understood by the general public in the industrialized countries and, until it is, the politicians are unlikely to act. Nevertheless, it is clear that no measures will effectively stop the migration trends. This could induce a sharp rise in defensive racism in the receiving countries and encourage the emergence of a series of right-wing dictators swept in by popular vote. Such situations must not be allowed to develop. It is therefore very important, to prepare the populations of the rich countries to accept this reality.
[The First Global Revolution, 1991; the sequel to The Limits to Growth, by my darling Club of Rome]
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