Thus the Financial Times today. “Rural flight creates area that rivals Lapland as least populated in Europe,” elaborates the newspaper. Climate change, it goes without saying. Bereft of water, people are abandoning the scorched countryside. And there will be many more of them in the future. But the article brings Lapland into the story only for comparison. What would be wrong if people from the ever-hotter shores of northern Mediterranean would be helped into Lapland for a new lease on life? Nothing, of course. But the European Union is still blind to the opportunities on its own soil, for Spain, Finland, and Sweden are all members. Relocation of people across the subcontinent will soon become a must, and it is time to start thinking about it in earnest. The planning and construction involved would take quite a few years, anyhow. But the time for a coherent relocation policy is right now.