The concept of Immigration - perhaps a new window of balancing is open for us.

In the tough times that the world is going through now a days, everything seems to be bearish. Some of the very fundamentals of economic growth like stock market portfolios, growth in average income, unemployment, declining provision of health services, and too much noise in immigration, all are creating a havoc on planet earth.

I still remember a few month back, there was a crisis on food supply - I recall going to costco, where everything is available in bulk, and I was unable to find bags of basmati rice. On asking, I was told by COSTCO that it is because of food shortage in rice exporting countries in south east asia. I remember oil prices going as high as $ 4.5 a gallon in Utah - whatever the reasons are, the fact is that commodities are getting scarce.

The challenge is that we try to resolve all of these gloabl issues separately, as if they are not interrelated. For instance, we ask ourselves a question why people want to move from their homeland to somewhere else? O well, looks like I will have to go one layer lower than this question. So lets see why would wild animals who are generally very arrogant when it comes to their boundaries migrate? Well some answers could be..

1) Well if there is a wild fire in the jungle.
2) If the river, streat, or a fresh water lake goes dry.
3) Drought, or scarcity of edible resources.
4) Spread of visible disease that animals can sense.
5) A group of hunters establish their base nearby and start killing the animals one by one.
6) Or anyother reason that tells the wild life that their growth is in danger in that area.

Observation:

1) In real life scenario - we let the animals migrate - feel happier, and accept their migration decision to a new region without any issue.
2) It looks like we are in full agreement with animals, and fish that they have the right to migrate wherever in search of better resources.
3) In some cases we call them endangered species, and provide them with the natural resources that went scarce so that they may evolve.
4) We are trying to save the habitat of polar bear in north, panda in china, bald eagle in usa, snow leaopards in pakistan and the list goes on.

Question?

What are we doing for humans - why we dont understand that if animals migrate in search of better prospects without regard to the boundaries of the countries why not humans?