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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by DoreenMichele on Saturday June 26, 2021 @08:13PM (#27647240)
Animals are already migrating to more northerly climes as recent articles on Svalbard attest.* What prevents people from doing the same is mostly international borders, politics and money.

Before we had international borders, plenty of humans lived migratory lives as well.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27479739

Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by DubiousPusher on Saturday June 26, 2021 @08:43PM (#27647424)
Absolutely. Even recorded history is full of migrations of large groups of people (anglo-saxons, repeated migrations out of the Asian steppe, mass migrations of the Native Americans after European arrival, etc). If we could reach high enough state of moral development we might even come to see migration as a human right. Though I believe impending material poverty will make that unlikely.
Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by DoreenMichele on Saturday June 26, 2021 @08:45PM (#27647445)
In spite of my own personal challenges, I'm actually more hopeful than many people seem to be. (Edit: at least for humanity. Not necessarily for myself.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028732