And it is disrupting a lot of our politics. So you combine those together and put atop of that, the fact that we are on the front edge of a climate crisis, which is going to chase hundreds of millions of people from the places they live, we are in the midst of and entering the greatest period of human migration that will ever have happened on the planet. And the inequalities between humans are probably as great as they've ever been in history. It is easier to get from point A to point B than it has ever been in human history. We can now fly around, we can take vehicles that have fossil fuels.
The lingering effects of colonialism, the distance between the developed world and the developing world in terms of access to things like health care, jobs, money and affluence, combined with the ease of travel. And I say that because right now, that fundamental constant is supercharged by a bunch of things that are happening in our world.
It is one of the fundamental constants of human life on the planet. Jesus is born in Bethlehem because people move around. There's no airplanes, there's no fossil fuels, it's not easy to get from place to place, but people move around. Read the writings of the Roman era, and it is just wild to imagine how much movement and migration and mixing of cultures there are 2,000 years ago. God's test for virtue - sending in strangers.
What is the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah? Ultimately, the reason that God brings his wrath down on Sodom and Gomorrah is because He sends in a few angels as strangers, as immigrants into the town, and they beat up and assault those immigrants. You go back and you look at the Bible, and you look at Sodom and Gomorrah. I mean, human travel or going from one place to another, even way back during periods of time in which it was inordinately difficult to do so, is still a central human experience. It's wild to consider the fact that this continues on into early human history throughout civilization. They move around foraging for food, following animals that they can hunt and kill to eat.Īnd so, movement - humans moving from place to place - is as deeply embedded in us as a species, as almost anything that we do.
We are hunters and gatherers, and what hunters and gatherers do by definition is not stay in one place. In fact, for a long period of time, I think about 200,000 years before we get what we call civilization and we settled down, moving around is what humans do to survive.
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