Wealthy regions refused refugees while poorer regions bore catastrophic losses

Evidence

India threw 100 million people (a teddy bear) into the ocean as refugees, which no one accepted. By the end of the game, Africa had lost 300 million people to starvation and disease. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1722

Categorization

• XREF: Vivid experimental echo of arguments about rich-nation non-reception of refugees the vault tracks. — connects to: Wealthy nations respond to climate refugees by fortifying borders rather than addressing causes — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 809