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[Thunderbird]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

Also, humans have always had a penchant for upping sticks and moving to better places. Whether these places are really better, or only perceived to be better, is immaterial - fact is, people move.

We've moved out of Africa, and into Europe, the Middle East, through to the Far East, and eventually over the Bering Strait and down into the Americas.

Problem is, the World is now pretty much tied up in human presence. You can go anywhere you want, and you'll run into people already staying there and laying claim to it as their land.

But that doesn't make the human habit of looking for new horizons go away, however.

Humans have been moving to places they perceive as "better" since time immemorial.

And, regardless of what the more nationalistic members of the species would like to believe, the trend is not going to stop now that we've gone and applied totally artificial barriers in the form of "borders" on the World Map.

We should stop seeing ourselves as "Americans" or "Europeans" or "Mexicans" or "Chinese", and start seeing ourselves as members of "humanity". Then we can tackle the problem of unplanned and uncontrolled migration, which can, quite simply, be boiled down to poverty.

Thank you for that one, and further poverty is a solvable problem. If resources are not wasted on war's and conflict. If economic and political models are based upon cooperative networks that considers the entire system and peoples, instead of greed and control for a powerful few. The trend IMHO is toward global networks of cooperation, despite the set backs of the last few years.