Climate Refugees

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This is an old argument with unclear answers, but third world countries are a thing for many reasons and you can't dismiss their woes. Excusing it with "we were also poor once" is nonsense.

Not dismissing anything. Just wondering why they haven't managed to deal with their problems while we did, even though we were dirt poor until very recently too.

I'm sure there are absolutely no geological or hydrological difference between the Netherlands and Bangladesh. It must be because they don't go skiing or snowboarding.

No, it's mostly because the Dutch are a hard-working, inventive folk.

The Bangladeshis ... not so much.

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[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Yes, actually, the Netherlands was richer than Bangladesh today. The Netherlands in the 1600s was literally a monopolist in many forms of advanced global commerce. Bangladesh today is at the bottom of the food chain supplying labour for simple consumer products. But, please, tell us more about race theory and how you are smarter, by association with white people, than those brown people like Muhammad Yunus (new phone, who that?).

While Austrians have fun skiing down the slopes of the Alps and enjoy their lives, millions of Bangladeshis work to make consumer goods for everyone in the Western World, in substandard safety conditions. Who is more hardworking?