An enlightening article. My only real comment is that those freeing climate change, corruption, poor living standards etc. are economic migrants and not refugees.

<< those freeing climate change ... economic migrants and not refugees>>

Dont worry Bren, the Greens and their allies are surreptitiously seeking to expand the definition of refugee.

This would've been a good article a decade ago, but the world has moved on somewhat. Literacy rates have improved and population growth has slowed in most countries, but you seem to have failed to notice. And there is already a great reluctance to give aid to countries with high corruption rates. But blaming the aid for the corruption is rather fanciful, especially when you consider countries like Nigeria which are not major aid recipients but still have high corruption rates. And apart from the export of second hand clothing by a charity, the only example I can think of of aid destroying a local industry is where agricultural subsidies are misclassified as "aid". And if that still occurs, it's not happening anywhere near as much as it did in the past.

Guy you seem to be getting your fiction mixed up in your article writing.

Drop the climate change scam as part of your narrative Guy, then try again. You can't get close to an answer with fiction for fact.

No use bringing fallacy into things, when you are supposedly being serious, about real problems.

Hear, hear and yes Aidan.

Improving literacy standards particularly among women, is the only way to reduce the birth rate, which is only able to continue at current rates in some of the more remote areas, given women there are just treated as goods and chattels, with no real rights, or no right whatsoever, to say no!

Be they prepubescent and visibly unwilling!

Hence the high death rate in childbirth, (unstoppable bleeding) without which population numbers, would likely double in those still primitive cultures?

Reportedly, coffee growing/exporting Kenya, has done some good things in recent years, with some reafforestation programs reversing rainfall patterns; and with it, returning some sustainability to some mostly subsistence lifestyles?
Well, coffee require quite copious water!
Rhrosty.

The author sees a climate pattern and assumes it is due to climate change - ie a severe drought. Africa had severe droughts well before anyone talked about climate change.. whether you buy into the IPCC or not, natural shifts in regional climates would still be occurring. The allegation is that such droughts are made worse by climate change. In any case, the main problem would still be the lack of political action to address the problems of such droughts, however they may be caused.