Digit wrote:I think of people as primarily lazy.
So how did it take just 150 yrs for the US to reach from coast to coast Min?
The lazy ones stay home and hope things will get better, what drove men like your early settlers to move west, passage in a wagon train couldn't have been cheap so they must have given up a lot.
We have colonised this entire planet Min, and we did it before population pressures forced us onwards. Take your Channel Islands, they were occupied almost as soon as man reached the Americas, and they were too far from the mainland for wading to, so why cross the waters when the whole of the continent was available?
Why have some people dedicated their lives to space travel?
All these events are, IMO, a reflection of our innate desire to explore.
The movement of people from Asia into Alaska 'following the herds' I suspect is wrong, by the time the white man reached your country the Bison had a well defined migration pattern, they didn't suddenly head for Cocpacabana once the land bridge formed, and I see no reason to assume that Mammoth etc changed their migration pattern simply because an ice free path cleared between the two continents.
In fact, as far I am aware, the only major migration was human.
I rest my case!![]()
Roy.
And migration is also progress. Take the Greeks. The current Greeks. There are 20 million of them. Since WWII 10 million of those have emigrated from Greece to all over the world to new lands like the US, South Africa, and Oz. They are the enterprising Greeks. They take chances, they work hard, and they generally succeed. The other 10 million are the ones still in Greece today, obviously. The not-enterprising. And behold: 60% of the working population in Greece are overpaid civil servants, teachers, nurses, care givers, etc. etc.! Costing and spending billions while not being productive at all. That's why Greece is in an economic mess right now. They overspent. On civil servant's salaries. It's a cultural mentality. But particular to the not (e)migrating Greeks!