Who is selling arms to the countries of these refugees? Who is happily bombing them? Who is exploiting their (often enormous) resources? Governments, multinationals, weapons producers. These are the causes, and it’s here that intervention is needed, not on the results, not on the boats, but nobody is saying anything. Pecunia non olet. The people drowning in the Mediterranean, are dying twice over: the first time at sea, and the second time because of our hypocrisy.