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Open the Borders!

The capitalist solution to climate change is to seal the borders. Based in the highly developed "western" world, those who control the world's capitalist economy outsource their destructive needs to the rest of the world. They destroy the environment of "less developed" countries, pollute the water, poison the air and subjugate the people, using oppressive local regimes sometimes labeled as democracies, but only where it makes the people easier to stomp down.

This makes life for the people who live in these places hellish and often very short. So, often these people leave the smoking ruins of their homelands (sometimes these places are literally "smoking ruins"), to seek a better life. They see that better life in the protected enclaves set up by the capitalists for their own use: the US and Europe, mostly. So, they head for these places.

What they find there, especially at the borders of the US, is armed resistance. They are shot at, arrested, separated from their families, tortured and sometimes they die. Often, they are sent right back the hellscape from which they fled. The very hell set up by the capitalists who pay for the border guards and militias.

Trouble is, it isn't working. Climate change is here, and it is going to keep getting worse. No political border is going to keep it out. No matter how many people border militias round up and kill, it is going to keep coming, and eventually, it will get the capitalists, too.

There is only one solution: Remove the capitalists! Shut down their bullshit horror farms, and start correcting the vile wrongs committed for centuries in the name of capital. AND OPEN THE BORDERS.

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