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Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny

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The Third Layer of Geography

The retreat of the ice age more than 10,000 years ago enabled humankind to settle into more sedentary agricultural and pastoral rhythms. Environmental factors such as droughts and floods have all played a role in shaping our human geography. The grand story of our geographic evolution can't be told through only one cartographic lens.

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