As a result of the Syrian civil war, there are now 3 million Syrian refugees registered in neighboring countries — an exodus that began in March 2011 and shows no sign of abating, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. The record figure was 1 million refugees more than a year ago, and an additional 6.5 million are displaced within Syria, meaning that "almost half of all Syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives," it said. — Al Jazeera
As the Islamic State rampages through Syria and Iraq, thousands are being displaced to add to the growing refugee population created by a civil war against Bashar al-Assad. The Islamic State actively uses infrastructure, specifically hydoinfrastructure, as a militaristic tactic exacerbating conditions for these displaced people. Many architects have developed projects specifically oriented to the global refugee crisis, of which Syria is part. In a past article, I asserted that this is not just a general ethical imperative, but also specific to architecture. The problems of a refugee camp or urban enclave are often architectural issues that require design solutions. Additionally, architecture can be considered complicit in the forces generating the crisis as millions are displaced because of climate changes, which architecture contributes to significantly.
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...We do not dwell because we have built, but we build and have built because we dwell, that is, because we are dwellers...
+ Additionally, architecture can be considered complicit in the forces generating the crisis as millions are displaced because of climate changes, which architecture contributes to significantly...
= A feedback loop as long as human civilization is the predominate actor in the going's on upon this planet, and our population keeps growing. Of course the powers that be seem to be initiating a pretext to check the growth of some populations...
Here's a good solution:
Get your government to stop giving the discreet green light to ISIS - as it pretends to speak of fighting terrorism- as a cynical ploy to wreck havoc on strong -or previously strong- countries that were against the hegemony of the US on their internal affairs. Drain of support to ISIS through the Gulf and logistically through Jordan and Turkey, all of those being American client states who'll play dead at the invocation of their master (when did a lapdog become qualified enough as an ally). Solution: no more ISIS, Syrians go back home and build their country - without the aid of political agent provocateur NGOs (NED, USAID, etc) or the filthy petrodollars of the Gulf terrorist states. And stop demonizing Bashar Al Assad - he' was no democratic ruler, but he was and is a million times better than any cancerous involvement of the US and its lapdogs in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, etc.
But, please carry on with your imaginary hocus pocus about finding a solution to millions of refugees by wrapping your right ear around your head in order to grab your left ear.
ISIS: US-made monster running amok in Middle East
"The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend" : How the US is using ISIS as a pretext for war against Syria
Iran Didn’t Create ISIS; We Did...Instead of shifting blame for ISIS’s rise, the West and its allies should look in the mirror
So, if you really care about finding a solution to the problem, instead of architecturally masturbating over it, please send a letter to your congresswoman or man and tell her or him to please work on your government in order to stop supporting terrorism in Middle East, that would be fab thanks.
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