Human mobility is fundamental to our biological resilience. Our capacity to cooperate across geographic barriers relies on the cultural connections forged by people on the move, injecting genetic and cultural diversity into otherwise insular societies.
Migration is the planet’s connective tissue. It’s not the crisis we reflexively imagine it to be. In a rapidly changing world, migration may be just the opposite: the solution.
https://www.visionscarto.net/next-great-migration
I was drawn to this excellent article from Sonia Shah because of this wonderful map displaying people’s migration from 65000 years ago.
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@xuv_writes
Sonia Shah nailed it! Spot on from my point of view ~~ for example:
"In the eighteenth century, the founder of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, characterized the natural world as essential still. Each animal belonged where it was found and hadn’t moved from one place to another; each human population was similarly fixed in place on the planet. Thanks to Linnaean taxonomy, we name things based on their fixed places and where they “belong”: the Canadian goose, the Japanese maple. We use animals to stand in for places, as if they are one and the same: the camel stands in for the middle east; the kangaroo for Australia—as if they have been there from time immemorial and could never shift."