# Stop the boats?

By [Planetary Council](https://paragraph.com/@planetary-council) · 2023-07-25

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Example of the current situation in the UK: **#StopTheBoats 🤷‍♀️**

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We are in the state of **#ClimateEmergency**, feedback loops, tipping points, non-linear changes, climate models are obsolete, uncharted territory. The only way to **#StopTheBoats 🤷‍♀️** is to ensure living future to those less-privileged so they don’t have to risk lives seeking better future.

Paradigm shift, change in thinking
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I see refugees as resourceful, risk-taking, entrepreneurial… I even started a petition calling to allow them to work:

[https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637088](https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637088)

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500 people - mostly males - perfectly able to work in agriculture.

Sending them back to Rwanda is deeply troubling, worrisome and inhumane.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda\_asylum\_plan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_asylum_plan)

> The United Kingdom will pay Rwanda an "economic transformation and integration fund" amounting to £120 million, and will also fund each immigrant between £20,000 and £30,000 for their relocation and temporary accommodation in the scheme

This is not OK
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Not that long time ago:

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan\_genocide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide)

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*Originally published on [Planetary Council](https://paragraph.com/@planetary-council/stop-the-boats)*