Yes and given most displaced people are fleeing conflict caused by power hungry madmen, one has to believe, we have no other option than to remove the cause of this massive exodus; be it the surgical removal of power hungry madmen or just endemic generational poverty, caused by things like repeated drought and consequent starvation by folks living as ever, from hand to mouth.

And a must do, least we live in a world without borders?

And therefore a world where the traditional laws and customs no longer hold sway; and it deteriorates into a hell on earth, where you are only safe behind impenetrable or totally hidden defenses!

WE have a natural moat and could if we so chose to,repel all boarders, sink or shoot down all attempts to take over/steal what we have or have created for ourselves and our children!?

However, I believe it is a better option to treat this problem at source; and by sending a cruise missile through a sleeping dictators bedroom window, if that is what it takes to end the bloodletting that keeps him or her inpower!

The only reason we have failed with this model in the past, is we didn't stay the course as law giving occupiers; until all the power vacuums were filled by a more population friendly model, be it universal suffrage/democracy, or the benign dictatorship, that precedes it?

But mostly I believe, we can improve the common lot just by providing the affordable carbon free or carbon neutral energy they need to till the ground and pump the water (recycled or desalinated where and as necessary,) so as to provide sufficient food and economic opportunities where they are now.

And then having done that, set about creating cottage industries and an education model that treat the other half of the population as equals before God and or the law!

We need borders and the laws they make possible along with the freedoms they guarantee!
Rhrosty.

Professor Curson, your “borderless world” is a parallel universe. In the real world, the other key in the equation is the multi-national corporation. And for honest taxpaying workers struggling to cope, it is unethical ; “Critically we also need to try and fully integrate them into our society, provide training, ensure access to education, housing, and social and health benefits and make sure that their children are allocated slots in day-care facilities or local schools.”

Yes, lines such as borders need to be drawn somewhere to prevent the spread of epidemics, crime and terrorism.

But this is where it should stop. There should be no other agenda for having those lines and once a person is clear of the above, they should be allowed to pass: nobody has a right to block another's path on God's blessed earth other than in self-defence.

Having said that, just because a person had physically crossed those lines, does not entitle them to any benefits such as social or national inclusion - these are completely different matters.

Humanity has achieved plague proportions and as a plague does will move on seeking new areas to lay waste and destroy until there is nothing left.

Hi Ateday,

Sorry to tell you, but the End is not Nigh. Birth-rates around the world have been falling for years. Populations may be rising mainly because people are living longer. Women are getting better-educated, hence postponing fecundity, and having fewer children. Except in the Muslim world, of course.

If anything, soon enough we will have labour shortages.

Is that what you are going on about ?

Cheers and merry Christmas,

Joe

I find it really disturbing the anti-Muslim sentiment, racism in reverse will not help the plight of the Jewish people, only turn more people against them. Its really disturbing. If given their way the Jewish communities exclude others who are not the same as them and think others are less than them, one reason why its become so bad for them, by their own discriminations they cause their own problems and cannot handle the consequences, not all Jews of course. I am sure there must be good and fair Jewish people, but the west is becoming more and more aware and outraged at what the Jews have done to Palestine and continue to do so to the Arab nations. Before the Ottoman empire was invaded by the west, all religions were accepted, why can this not be so today. Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, it is obvious as described by the name sake of land and people. I want to have a fair opinion of both Jews and Arabs, but the persecution of the Muslims is becoming a genocide of their people and I was taught as a child that two wrongs don't make a right and I see the Jewish nation as making this mistake. I am not a supporter of a world without states. Identities as nations are important to a sense of belonging, without this we are nothing but rats in a cage.