We will soon reach a significant inflection point in the history of humanity. In just a few years, and for the first time in history, more people will be living in urban areas than in the countryside.
At the same time, international migration is at an all-time high, with close to 200 million people living in a country other than their country of birth.
Urbanization is concentrating people as never before, while at the same time
migration is mixing people in new ways. What can we say today about their trajectory tomorrow? What about urbanization and migration should we all be paying more attention to in the coming years?
GBN attempted to answer some of these questions by bringing together two incisive thinkers, GBN cofounder Stewart Brand and Joe Chamie, a leading demographer and former head of the United Nations Population Division, for a webconference discussion moderated by GBN practitioner Erik Smith.