The need to choose how to adapt to the future highlights the choices-about town planning, or forestry, or coastal defences, or immigration-that have shaped the present.

如何去适应未来的这种需要突出了选择的重要，有关城市规划、林业管理、海岸防御和移居，这些都造就了现在的局面。

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Ms Barrett-Brown also suggested that some large companies might choose to relocate to another country if an immigration cap left them short of the staff they needed.

BBC: Home Affairs Committee

Our stone-age immigration system also means that too many workers, both skilled and unskilled, choose not to come to America to work.

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He said that as a number of other major European countries such as Germany were also lifting immigration controls in 2013 it was difficult to assess which country Bulgarian and Romanian migrants might choose to go to.

BBC: Immigration debate