they have no choice
Humanity’s crimes against our planet are matched only by our cruelty toward one another. As we plunder Earth’s resources—stripping forests, polluting oceans, and poisoning the air—we also wage wars that target the most vulnerable. Defenseless civilians, including children, watch in horror as their families are obliterated by bombs, their homes reduced to rubble. Thousands are orphaned in an instant—if they survive at all.
With no choice but to flee, these survivors embark on perilous journeys, cramming into flimsy dinghies to cross the treacherous waters of the English Channel. Many drown, their dreams swallowed by the waves. Those who reach shore often find themselves trapped in squalid refugee camps—overcrowded, unsanitary, and devoid of dignity. These are not temporary shelters but monuments to human indifference, where people who have lost everything are treated as problems rather than human beings.
It is a moral failure of staggering proportions. The same nations that fuel conflicts with weapons sales then turn away refugees with barbed wire and bureaucracy. The same corporations that profit from environmental destruction offer empty promises while the displaced starve in makeshift tents.
Refugees are caged like animals behind razor wire fences – their only crime being the desperate search for safety after surviving wars they didn’t start. These human beings, who’ve endured unimaginable trauma, now face dehumanizing confinement in what amount to open-air prisons. Children who witnessed their parents’ deaths now play in the shadow of coiled steel barriers, while families who escaped bombing campaigns find themselves trapped in a different kind of violence – the slow violence of neglect and institutionalized cruelty.
The razor wire symbolizes our collective failure – not of borders, but of basic humanity. We’ve transformed compassion into containment, turning survival into something punishable by indefinite detention. These fences don’t protect nations; they expose our moral bankruptcy, showing how easily we convert human suffering into political bargaining chips.
Behind these metal teeth are doctors, teachers, and artists – people whose potential is being systematically crushed by our indifference. The wire cuts both ways: while it physically restrains refugees, it morally restrains us, preventing the natural human impulse to help those in need. This is not security – it’s societal self-harm, creating wounds that will take generations to heal.
