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Animals are already migrating to more northerly climes as recent articles on Svalbard attest.* What prevents people from doing the same is mostly international
by DoreenMichele 5y ago
Animals are already migrating to more northerly climes as recent articles on Svalbard attest.* What prevents people from doing the same is mostly international borders, politics and money.
Before we had international borders, plenty of humans lived migratory lives as well.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27479739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27479739
- DubiousPusher 5y agoAbsolutely. Even recorded history is full of migrations of large groups of people (anglo-saxons, repeated migrations out of the Asian steppe, mass migrations of the Native Americans after European arrival, etc). If we could reach high enough state of moral development we might even come to see migration as a human right. Though I believe impending material poverty will make that unlikely.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoIn spite of my own personal challenges, I'm actually more hopeful than many people seem to be. (Edit: at least for humanity. Not necessarily for myself.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028732