The Only Solution To Population Collapse Is Immigration

But we’re turning immigrants away.

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The last half-decade has seen two decades of rising populism come to the fore of global politics. The unfounded resentment of immigration which was an unwelcome undercurrent to much of our politics following the 9/11 attacks and the financial crisis has become a key issue, driving voters towards the populist radical right.

Bolsonaro, Trump, Modi, Johnson, Orban — you know the names, you know what they stand for. Every one has embraced a nativist ideology that rejects multiculturalism, immigration, and refugees as a scourge on society, the source of economic stagnation, and a parasitic force.

It is all too simple, when things go south, to look for a scapegoat and to blame the ‘others’ — those who don’t look like you and sound like you.

Sustained by a rejection of globalisation and the international community, this resistance to immigration has become almost the accepted political norm in many countries around the world, with formerly proud parties of immigration and multicuturalism now rejecting their old identity and policy. There was a time, following the end of the cold war and the collapse of the Soviet Union, when even the more nativist political parties accepted the need for immigration and merely suggested…