tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195756189853757184.post1084020863223844268..comments2023-06-13T03:17:17.778-07:00Comments on The Road to Dotage: In the Shadow of the Bomb Tom Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811449456953451486noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195756189853757184.post-21034625702001082592017-06-29T07:10:22.616-07:002017-06-29T07:10:22.616-07:00Critics of this article complain that I denigrate ...Critics of this article complain that I denigrate population control, but offer no alternative to the world's people problems. So here's an alternative: <br />We now have a situation where poor and displaced people are thronging the borders of wealthy nations which are in large part responsible for their poverty and displacement. (Think Latin America and Syria, respectively.) <br />The developed world’s response has been to close its borders, but this depends on a willful ignorance of its own causal roles in the crisis. Their response should be the opposite. Wealthy nations should swallow their fears and open their borders, as Sweden has – and let these people find places in their economies, as they can and will. <br />Remember the collapse of the communist world, and the West’s response to the hordes of refugees it generated? It can be done. If it isn’t, the wealthy nations face endless conflict. <br />Tom Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17811449456953451486noreply@blogger.com