"If we are wise, the answer will be 'programmable geography' — recoding places based on their changing roles in our fluid global system. Habitable geography is our most precious terrestrial resource, and we must optimize it for those that come after us."

Parag Khanna, "Migration Will Soon be the Biggest Climate Challenge of our Time," Financial Times (Oct. 3, 2021)

"By the waters of Babylon
We sit down and weep,
Far from the pleasant land
Where our fathers sleep."

Christina Rossetti, "By the Waters of Babylon" (1861)

They say that no one has ever washed a rented car.  Nor do the tenants of an apartment building spend their weekends cleaning the gutters.  I confess that I have never entered a motel room and declared to my wife, "we must optimized it for those that come after us."  Nomads are exploiters. Tenants are termites.  Only sedentary people husband their resources.  And the roots of the word husband mean householder. Read more of this post