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Copy of tweet: #EarthDay2021 “Before 1914, the earth belonged to the entire human race.” Stefan Zweig on open borders, from his memoirs, The World of Yesterday. Including image of text, reading: "...rights. Before 1914 the earth belonged to the entire human race. Everyone could go where he wanted and stay there as long as he liked. No permits or visas were necessary, and I am always enchanted by the amazement of young people when tell them that before 1914 I travelled to India and America without a passport. Indeed, I had never set eyes on a passport...No permits, no visas, nothing to give you trouble; the borders that today, thanks to the pathological distrust felt by everyone for everyone else, are a tangled fence of red tape were then nothing but symbolic lines on the map, and you crossed them as unthinkingly as you can cross the meridian in Greenwich. It was not until after the war that National Socialism began destroying the world, and the..."