The author says "It's deeply rooted in a fear of a future defined by uncontrollable, continuous migration crises fueled by a climate-ravaged, demographically exploding African continent", as if this is a bad thing. Uncontrollable, continuous migration is a very bad thing. How is that not a bad thing? Also why would this problem even belong to Europe?

I don't think the politics of the average person think this many steps ahead, but if they did it would be a legitimate concern, especially given the struggles Europe has experienced trying to assimilate the migrants it currently has.

Why do we Europeans care? Because climate change is destroying the foundations of our life. The real question should be why are others caring less?

But back to us Europeans: Since we already have "basically" everything we want (including low inequality), we can afford to look forward to dangers that lurk only on the horizon. Also, our politicians do listen to their voters (at least sometimes) because media is less corrupt and votes count. This all helps.

Nonetheless, Europe is still too slow and we are heading right into the climate desaster anyway. But at least we did and do something. Yes, it lets me sleep better.

The immigrants arriving to the south of italy/greece from libya are Egyptians, syrians, sudanese, afghans, bangladeshi etc. Not subsaharan.

There is no significant migration of subsaharan africans to the north of Africa. They want to go to europe, and pay smugglers to get them there.

The article is out of touch with reality. That said, mass migration due to climate change SHOULD of course be a great fear for europe.

>"By investing in climate mitigation and renewable energy projects within Africa, Europe hopes to stabilize the continent at its source—to make life bearable enough that millions don't feel compelled to leave."

Aren't parts of the EU already encouraging them to migrate to plug labor holes in their demographically top-heavy systems and keep wages down? Wouldn't that outweigh these efforts?

Isn't a better question: why would it matter?

Whichever is true, we all benefit, so why agitate over it? Conflating the two issues will not generate a single iota of good so drop it.

This is like scorpion-turtle parable crossing a river. Europe is on a raft. At some point the raft begins to sink = all drown. They need to save Africa to save themselves.