Nomadism A past and present environmental need of change

“a member of a group that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home.”

“a person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer.”

“Ninety-eight per cent of our time on Earth as anatomically modern humans has been spent as nomads. Living your whole life in the village, town or city of your birth would be an anomalous development.”

In the past migration patterns were dictated by nature, shifting their location as they searched for fertile lands and retreated from storms and predators.

From the book “The New Nomads: How the Migration Movement is Making the World a Better Place”

In the past moving was about what could be self transported or transported with an animal, so the possessions of a person were really minimal and thought out.

Nomadic populations still exist today, they tend to use the same transportation methods as before.

Today the the average person moves houses on average 11.4 times, so most of us could consider themselves as modern-times nomads.

I personally moved houses 8 times in my life and I found it difficult to understand the nature of the importance I gave to my belongings, and which ones were really important for me.

Houses/apartments nowadays are getting smaller and smaller and more and increasingly expensive. This is a consequence of the mass movement towards big cities.