Migrating

HUMAN BEINGS are nomadic, mmirgratory by nature, because for tens of millions of years, our ancestors maintained neolithic, hunter gatherer civilization, groups of maybe fourty always on the move, following the seasion, and the food. The invention of agruculture and animal husbandry and neolithic civilization was a great step forwared for humanity, allowing for sustained progress in evolving human civilization towards greater understanding of nature and higher artistic expression. Nonetheless, to this day, we have the urge to roam. In her shockingly insightful new book "Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World", Gaia Vince points this out, and reminds us that human history has been largely shaped by migrataion; large groups of people all moving together as a group into new territories. Climate Change is upon us, and becoming more extreme every year. During the past decade unprecedented numbers of people have migrated around the world, humanity is on the move as never before; from Africa into Europe, from Latin America into North America. As climate change worsens, and extreme wildfires, drought, flood, violent storms and torrential floods, sea level rise, and other disasters become more and more impactful and destructive, people will be forced to move away from today's coastal habitat, and surrender it to the ocean. About one half of the world's eight billion people live within a few miles of the ocean, and will have to move inland. Gobal civilization will be shaken up as is already happening, the migration of billions of people over the next couple of decades disrupting every nation's political balance, every country's economy and culture, straining resources to the point of economic and infrastructure collapse. People will be forced to move away from areas where extreme drought decade after dacade are turning the land into desert, driving human cities out. As the Lousiana and Virginia coastlines shrink and vanish, people will be forced to move ever more north of New Orelans, and ever more east of Washington D.C. and New York City. Even now sea water is rising and flooding up and into the Miami, Florida sewer sytem, and the New York City subway system. Humanity produces eough food to feed everyone, and yet, billions of people don't get enough to eat. How much longer until the water wars begin? We humans can barely drag ourselves to the meeting table and even begin to discuss much less agree on how to reverse climate change and how to save the environment, for heaven's sake. I'm extremely grateful for the life I have now, for the life I have had over many decades, and for whatever life I have remaining in the future. I'm not worried about myself. What worries me is wondering what kind of world, environmentally and climatically, the kids being born now will have as they age into adulthood. Will Earth become superheated, with heat waves, droughts, and wlidfires all over the planet? This is already happening, of course, and can only get worse. Already massive flooding events are happening all over the world, as are wildfires. How much worse will it become, over the next quarter century and half century? Thinking about this is alarming, and also, you can't help feeling how unfair this situation is for the next generations to come.