10 Billion People

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As the global population climbs to 10 billion people by 2060 or so, global immigration and climate change are going to increasingly dictate the politics of every country on Earth. What are the common threads? What can we learn from how global immigration and climate change impacts nations today? These are the questions we ask. Plus, in each episode we look at the secret or not-so-secret immigration histories of famous people.

Episodes

  1. 03/05/2023

    Ep. 7: The Darien Gap Migrant Route + "Mass migration preparedness"

    News: Americans Fleeing the US for fear of the far right Article in the New Republic - open with a gay man in NYC going to the German consulate to apply for citizenship - looking forward to a time when LGBTQ rights are truly erroded There is little doubt that members of the political right are setting their sight on LGBTQ rights, it was alluded to directly in Dobbs “Blaxit” - movement of black Americans moving abroad - huge uptick in internet searches in the last years since Trump - politics aside, we can agree that the far right took the mask off in terms of bigotry Mass Migration Preparedness - Migration is now just another type of whether pattern delivering inconvenience to us all “Board up your windows folks i think we’re going to have a system moving through the next few months https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/c... Expats v Immigrants - What’s the difference!? The blunt expression of this problem is well put by a Guardian article: “Why are white people expats and the rest of us are immigrants?” Wall Street Journal’s take: has a blog dedicated to the life of expats and recently they featured a story ‘Who is an expat, anyway?’. Here are the main conclusions: “Some arrivals are described as expats; others as immigrants; and some simply as migrants. It depends on social class, country of origin and economic status. It’s strange to hear some people in Hong Kong described as expats, but not others. Anyone with roots in a western country is considered an expat … Filipino domestic helpers are just guests, even if they’ve been here for decades. Mandarin-speaking mainland Chinese are rarely regarded as expats … It’s a double standard woven into official policy.” GoFundMe - Coyote Mt. Pleasant High School in RI Assistant VP and teacher soliciting money to pay the rest of a students tab to a coyote Predictable backlash - money was returned and another email sent out by the principal saying the request was “not appropriate” This was probably a teacher trying to simply support a student - understandably, it was swallowed up by the culture wars DARIEN GAP - THE MIGRANT ROUTE OF LAST RESORT (Specific uptick in Afghans taking this route) What is the Darien gap? 60 miles of roadless jungle, steep mountains, rivers, swamps completely controlled by gangs The Spanish, who took control of almost all of Central America at one point or another, steered clear of the Darien jungle, seeing it as to dense, the mountains too steep, and filled with malaria and yellow fever Land and sea routes have been targeted by authorities increasingly over the past few years - pushing more people into this route - only land bridge to north america - this is becoming the only way for many This is the only break in the pan-american highway which otherwise stretches from Alaska to Argentina According to the Panamanian Gov -- 151k have crossed the darien gap between Jan and Sep in 2022 - up from only a couple hundred people annually about a decade ago The majority were from Cuba, Ecuador, and Haiti—including Haitian children born in Brazil and Chile—but some hailed from as far away as Angola, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan.

    1 hr
  2. 01/06/2023

    Ep. 4: Limits of citizenship at the edge of law: Al-Awlaki, Eric Snowden, Mos Def - 10 Billion People Podcast

    The drone killing of Al-Awlaki marked in the most violent way possible the limits of US Citizenship. It ignited a debate about what citizenship is, and whether the killing of Al-Awlaki had somehow lessened the rights of Americans to not be killed by their own government. Eric Snowden recently announced he was becoming a U.S. Citizen. Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, tried to delay his deportation from South Africa by using a “World Passport”. These cases beg the question of where the limits of citizenship, which are in essence the rights that attach to a person because they are a part of a certain recognized country, begin and end. They often end, we discuss, where they meet the outer limits of the law, I.e. where questions that law has not yet considered start and only raw power rules. We also cover: nigerian migrants riding on the propeller of a ship all the way to Europe; a large ICE data leak; Qatari migrants in the world cup audience; the World Passport and the World Citizen Government; the idiocy of the position that all borders should be open/borders shouldn't exist Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro clip - qatari immigrant play actors 00:03:00 Show start 00:03:29 Nigerian migrants survive on tanker ship 00:08:12 "Borders don't exist" is not a serious argument 00:11:08 ICE Data leak - what does it mean? 00:33:04 Edward Snowden: Citizenship limits Pt 1 00:37:22 Snowden's presser: legal significance of words 00:40:44 Eric Snowden could declare his way out of US citizenship 00:44:20 Al-Awlaki: US finds a limit to citizenship 00:47:25 Jerry Falwell is a lot like Al-Awlaki 00:55:23 Al-Awlaki was a very typical spoiled American bad boy 00:55:50 Al-Awlaki's mountain of prostitutes 00:58:20 Al-Awlaki was one of the original social media trolls 01:00:30 Andrew Tate is what Al-Awlaki could have been 01:03:15 Al-Awlaki turns the corner into terrorism 01:04:10 A crotch lights on fire 01:05:07 Obama administration finds justification for killing Al-Awlaki 01:07:38 Where does the power to kill a citizen come from? if it exists... 01:10:32 Using extraconstitutional power to kill citizens 01:15:37 Limits on power, i.e. laws, often must be developed in response to power's use 01:17:04 Citizenship ends where the the limits of law begin 01:17:43 Where Eric Snowden's rights to citizenship would end 01:19:30 Yasiim Bey formerly known as Mos Def 01:22:20 The World Passport (that's not a real passport) 01:25:01 Sovereign citizens and the world passport 01:26:30 Open borders is as realistic as a world passport (i.e. uttern nonsense) 01:28:10 Not believing in borders is the irony of the World Passport crowd

    1h 33m

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As the global population climbs to 10 billion people by 2060 or so, global immigration and climate change are going to increasingly dictate the politics of every country on Earth. What are the common threads? What can we learn from how global immigration and climate change impacts nations today? These are the questions we ask. Plus, in each episode we look at the secret or not-so-secret immigration histories of famous people.