
Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny
Long Now
Climate Change - A New Paradigm
"The best adaptation mechanism and the one that we are best at and have honed for thousands of years is to move," he says. "We can't delay this discussion or agenda any longer because even if mitigation efforts were to succeed, our climate is not going to return to what it was." The past several centuries have all been eras of mass migrations in terms of people leaving their homelands due to famine and economic hardship. Even the 19th century, which historians refer to as the age of nationalism, actually marked the onset of mass migration into the tens and hundreds of millions of people.
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