Thanks. To be honest, I never read it. I have it in pdf but I can't read long texts on a screen -- not even in ebooks. If I find a paper copy, I may try.
I can read long texts on a screen if I do it in small "snatches"... but somehow having a computer in my lap to read a novel is just not the same thing as holding an actual real-life book.
‘Spending billions to import them’ (paraphrase) Ok, that’s a satisfactory explanation. But who’s doing it? The NGOs? Do they have little strike forces going about in south hemisphere countries doling out remittances and signing up migrants-to-be? Maybe this all becomes word of mouth at some point for would-be migrants after such an initiative primes the pump. I just don’t think we know enough about the How in all of this.
Part of it is word-of-mouth, or, rather, social media, and part of it is an organized process of basically shipping the migrants from the Libyan sea -- in theory, they cannot be transported directly from the coast, but once they are in "international waters", it is considered a rescue. Well, the NGOs are just tools of governments and rich people (they are called "Non-Governmental Organizations", I assume ironically, because many are government-funded directly or indirectly, and usually support the same things that government and rich people do.
The Camp of the Saints is still available in digital form for those who don't mind reading a novel off a screen.
https://archive.org/details/raspail-jean-camp-of-the-saints-1975/page/198/mode/2up
I haven't had a chance to read the book yet myself, so I'd love to hear from anyone else who has on what they thought of it.
Thanks. To be honest, I never read it. I have it in pdf but I can't read long texts on a screen -- not even in ebooks. If I find a paper copy, I may try.
I can read long texts on a screen if I do it in small "snatches"... but somehow having a computer in my lap to read a novel is just not the same thing as holding an actual real-life book.
‘Spending billions to import them’ (paraphrase) Ok, that’s a satisfactory explanation. But who’s doing it? The NGOs? Do they have little strike forces going about in south hemisphere countries doling out remittances and signing up migrants-to-be? Maybe this all becomes word of mouth at some point for would-be migrants after such an initiative primes the pump. I just don’t think we know enough about the How in all of this.
Part of it is word-of-mouth, or, rather, social media, and part of it is an organized process of basically shipping the migrants from the Libyan sea -- in theory, they cannot be transported directly from the coast, but once they are in "international waters", it is considered a rescue. Well, the NGOs are just tools of governments and rich people (they are called "Non-Governmental Organizations", I assume ironically, because many are government-funded directly or indirectly, and usually support the same things that government and rich people do.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2021-000759_EN.html