Who will save our world?

Will a nation or individual stand up to be counted?

In history we have always found someone, when it comes to crunch: be it Winston Churchill or others. I wonder whom or which country or people will say enough is enough to today’s societal problems and lead the search for a fix!?

When you see images of dead children floating in the Atlantic Ocean or children being locked in cages in the name of controlling immigration, the question can no longer be whether the press photographer showed an angle of the floating body that will maximise reaction or whether the dead child belongs to an economic migrant or a bona fide refugee fleeing conflict. For goodness sake! How can we continue to say we are human, while we look away as fellow human beings suffer needlessly??

Recent images of people shoving old men and women aside in supermarket rush to buy up toilet rolls in a panic that coronavirus may end up quarantining vast numbers, shows you just how low today’s society has sunk and you can only imagine what would happen if this develops into a real emergency and we do indeed run out of suppliers: how long will it take for mass looting and chaos to ensue?

We cannot wait any longer to find today’s Winston Churchill, today’s William Wilberforce; we must stand up now for humanity and be counted.

The solution to the world’s problem is not mass-migration as many who have migrated will recount tales of generations of suffering and inability to integrate or fit in and many generations still suffer that effect. But together, we have to be disgusted by what society has become. None of us own this earth! We will all leave with nothing when we die. We have to find solutions that will industrialise majority of the world, end strife so that people can be happy where they are and only migrate if they choose to (and when they do, they are able to settle and integrate without fear of intolerance and generations of suffering thereafter). Majority of the population in Australia, Canada, USA, South America and other places are not indigenous; we all came from somewhere!

The common hysteria of: “if we’re nice to them, more will come”, which is fuelling the rise of populism cannot be ignored. If people have an anxiety of seeing new migrants come in in droves, ignoring their anxiety and just telling them they are stupid simply makes them more angry and more determined and we end up with supposed,y civilised governments creating “hostile environment” for migrants and being proud enough to state that as a strategy, when what we need to do as a society, is find real solutions that work for everyone. In trying to create hostile environments aimed at dissuading migrants, we are creating hostile environments for our own people and that is leading to the problems we have in today’s society with a gross lack of compassion and humanity. We shouldn’t have to create hostile environments here, we should help to create happy environments everywhere so that people will prefer to stay where they are and not have to drift around the world trying to find a better life: this is a much more effective and cheaper approach

The people we say we are trying to help are the ones we hurt the most, if we bring them into societies that do not want them. The outcome is generations of detriment to those folks. Governments are there to lead not dictate: governments must listen to their people (all their people) and not just the ones we agree with. We have to find peaceful locations near countries in conflict, to support those peaceful areas with infrastructure for their local people so they don’t hate on newcomers, and the provide infrastructure for the newcomers to settle them there, without people having to attempt crossing the Atlantic in bathtubs, only to get to their destination to be treated harshly and their children treated to years of not fitting in and abuse. We have to find solutions that work for all sides: those who are against migration, those who support it and for the migrants themselves (be they economic migrants or refugees; they are all human).

We must find answers! The state of today’s world is truly appalling. But first, we need people to stand up and be counted!!