And it will be a lot more when climate change makes larger areas uninhabitable.

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.

Good. Under the current economic system we need continuous population growth and migrants are more likely to do jobs not enough people want to do (backer, age care, …).

Huh, I didn’t realize the population was so low.