After two weeks on a cruise ship I’m catching up on the news. A reasonable high-level summary seems to be that Earth is trying to shake off 325 million human parasites by trashing the U.S. with hurricanes, flooding, tornadoes, and other severe weather.
Back in January I wrote Why accept any refugees to the U.S. if they are welcome in Canada? after Canada offered to accept an unlimited number of refugees conditioned only on their being rejected by the U.S. I’m wondering if the idea makes more sense in light of recent weather events.
What is the value of obtaining refugee status in the U.S. only to be wiped out by a hurricane, monster thunderstorm, rising sea level, or tornado? Canada is too cold for tornadoes, big thunderstorms, and hurricanes. It is well inland and elevated from the rising seas. Most Canadian provinces should be net beneficiaries from global warming, e.g., through a longer and more productive farming season.
Not only does Canada have a far lower crime rate than the U.S., but at least central Canada seems like a far safer place from a weather risk point of view.
Readers: What do you think? If we sincerely have the best interests of refugees in mind, is it time to print up “You will be a lot safer in central Canada” signs for our borders?
Well inland? Per wikipedia it has four times the coastline of any other country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_length_of_coastline
Refugees are welcomed in Canada by politicians on the left. Polls of Canadian voters show they are against it, varying from 55-65% by province.
King Justing the Just is too annoying and self-righteous.
wally w: The length of Canada’s coastline is an impressive factoid, but lining that to its mean dislance inland is the most misleading relation I have ever seen on PhilG’s blog! It would take a whole page to list the reasons why that answer is completely wrong-headed, but that is a discussion for another topic…
wally, Gordon, be quiet before someone turns this into an interview question.
No worries billg. Canada is a democracy and people have spoken by electing their politicans. No doubt, after world refugees are admitted by democratically elected Canadian government, the percentiles mentioned by you will change. You ought to believe media, US is just too dangerous in all apsects for refugees to feel safe.
If areas in Canada that are far from the sea are good places for refugees, the adjacent American states, from Vermont to Montana, should also be.
Very inhuman of you Vince, to risk exposing struggling refugees to Trumpenfurer and MAGA propraganda.
Montana? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_United_States_by_state shows that the murder rate there is 3.5 per 100,000. The corresponding rate in Canada is just 1.68 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate ).
So Montana is at least twice as dangerous as Canada from the point of view of crime. As global warming unfolds, Montana is also much more likely to be exposed to severe thunderstorms than Canadian provinces to the north.
I am shocked by your callous indifference to the well-being of refugees, Vince. Canada is ready to welcome them and keep them safe; you apparently want them to be murdered in Montana.
@philg How cold do you think it is up here? The climate of Alberta is is pretty indistinguishable from Montana and Idaho. We do already get severe thunderstorms, I have a hale marked truck to prove it..And while we are lucky to avoid the Wizard of Oz type tornadoes of the mid-western US we too get tornadoes; did the image of the man mowing his lawn with a tornado looming in the background from June not make the rounds state side? https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/alberta-man-who-mowed-lawn-with-tornado-behind-him-says-he-was-keeping-an-eye-on-it/article35200762/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
I will agree our crime rate is lower and we have considerably less Trump.
Even as a joke, this is sophistry. Americans like to weasel out of any responsibility that does not create income for some corporation or other. Don’t give Trump (or any of your political elite) any ideas, they might use them.