• OldFartPhil@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There are more than enough people on the planet and the answer to falling birth rates in the developed world isn’t more births, it’s more immigration.

    Unfortunately, the xenophobes seem to be winning in most western countries, to everyone’s detriment.

    • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Canada has massive immigration targets, but guess what? No one wants to move to the middle of nowhere where it gets down to -45C they want to live in major cities along the border, where we haven’t built housing since the 70s and unless these immigrants bring money to buy hyperinflated 2M dollar houses end up living terrible lives, doing terrible jobs, further putting a strain on our crumbling healthcare system.

      I’m all for immigration but we need a place for people to go. Refugees are showing up right now and we don’t know where to put them, a whole whack of them that showed up were living on the streets in 40+C weather because we have no place to put them and little money to put them up somewhere

      • UlfKirsten@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        I’d like to retire early in the Canadian tundra. I’d need kinda stable internet, though. How much is a house in the Canadian outback going for?