Quartz: Fix the Climate, or be Overwhelmed by African Climate Migrants

Until there is an environment where peaceful and permanent settlement can be maintained leading to less expenditure on armaments; until tyrants and demigods can put aside their rapaciousness, then Africa will never be good example of anything. I do find it rather incendiary, the idea that Africans are somehow naive lesser beings that need the ministrations of liberal philosophy to maintain. Perhaps statehood itself is is not advisable for the Continent as a whole? South Africa’s rush to independence only produced instability and although the reasons for the change were commendable the sudden digression led to dissonances which are all too evident today. Perhaps the last thing you wanted to was to hand the country to nationalists who, but for one man, could have reeked havoc.
It seems that tribal Africa was far more resourceful and sustainable than imitations of western style democracy that pertain today. In governance, sustainability and longevity the tribal system sustained those self-same people, had a relationship between availability of sustenance and population by the obvious obvious constraints. The contrivances of the state are not applicable to all people and accession to mineral wealth has been a temptation too far for many, displacing the incumbents and empowering the superficial. Too much of the tone of joining with Africans sounds like juvenilia. There is no sound so egregious as the baby talk that western interlocutors use to engage with Africans,embarrassing baby talk and demeaning giggly banter.
Is Africa to be an agrarian civilisation that profits in terms of the limitations of its production or an industrial society that cannot be maintained by the lands of that continent in their current condition? It seems that we have had over a century of imposition of the latter model and been bewildered by the outcome that we as much as any other have contrived. Whatever the weather, putting a plough into feeble soil can only cause that earth to take to the air to no one’s benefit. The natural vegetation of Africa tells the story of African climate quite succinctly. Perhaps the Baobab should be the symbol of the place? Telling a tale of feast and famine?

Ethiopians are leaving Ethiopia because there is little to no work there with massive increases to the costs of living (Teff for instance). Many are women who, in effect, be come slaves (Sometimes sexual slaves, difficult to prove). I know a relative, of my former Ethiopian wife, when to the Middle East as a house maid. Now I don’t know if she was abused sexually, what I do know is she was abused by the male member of the household in terms of beatings and demands. This PoS actually took her passport away from her. Anyway, after many calls I managed to get his wife and suggested that if they did not return her passport and allow her to leave, I would get authorities involved and even travel there to get the issue resolved. Two weeks later, my wife’s relative was reunited with her passport and returned to Ethiopia. Sad thing is, she wants(ed) to go back. Good thing is, we got her out!

I do remember the pitiful starving Ethiopian children thirty years ago, when the real issue was land redistribution by the Mengistu regime. Reads like the same sort of ignorant blather.

Immigrants from Africa have been economic, absolutely nothing to do with the climate. Force feed a nation with handouts for generations rather than help develop their economy and see what happens. It comes as no shock to see that less than 25% of Ethiopia is connected to the grid, and has roughly 2.3GW installed capacity (6% renewables, 8% geothermal, 86% hydroelectric) for 80 million people.