Wars always have multiple causes. Drought is one of the causes of this war.
Syria hasn't exactly been a happy place for a long time, but it takes a bit to go from "not a happy place" to civil war. Drought and food insecurity was one of the things that pushed towards war.
As climate conditions worsen, numbers of refugees from drought will only grow. The rest of the world cannot bare the climate refugee burden.
This is why climate change actually is our greatest security threat. People do not peacefully starve to death.
I was only trying to find a closer place for them than Europe or the US, from which they'll never return, burden our resources, or provide cover for an influx of terrorists.
You have that backwards.
Western Europe has a population problem: They haven't been having enough children. As a result, they're going to have big economic problems when the older people retire. They did not make enough kids to support them in their retirement. Take a gander at Japan for the last 3 decades: it has not been good. Too few kids are being taxed to support too many older people who no longer work. That has resulted in an explosion of Japanese debt in order to keep paying the bills. And it can't continue forever.
Western Europe is heading to the same problem. They've been having around 1.8 kids per woman, and you need 2.1 kids per woman for a stable population. You need at least a stable population in order for the government to afford concepts like "retirement".
Taking in refugees fixes that. It provides a pool of younger workers to make up for the lack of younger workers "produced internally". They do jobs, pay taxes, and the economy in those countries can continue to work.
So relocating Syrian refugees to Europe is not a burden on Europe's resources. It's a net boost in resources.
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