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Nomad Century is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where—and how—we live
"We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you've never heard of."
Drought-hit regions bleeding those who for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the earth's human geography. As Gaia Vince points out early in Nomad Century, global migration has doubled in the past decade, on track to see literal billions displaced in the coming decades. What exactly is happening, Vince asks? And how will this new great migration reshape us all?
In this deeply-reported clarion call, Vince draws on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, to tell us how the changes already in play will transform our food, our cities, our politics, and much more. Her findings are answers we all need, now more than ever.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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- ISBN: 9781250855862
- File size: 280794 KB
- Duration: 09:44:59
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- English
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Publisher's Weekly
May 30, 2022
Journalist Vince (Transcendence) warns of a “great upheaval” in global migration resulting from climate change in this bracing clarion call. “Fleeing the tropics, the coasts and formerly arable lands, huge populations will need to seek new homes,” she writes; “you will be among them, or you will be receiving them.” In taking size of the current state of the world, Vince looks back at hundreds of thousands of years of crises and the human responses to them: “whether for exploration and adventure, from disaster to safety, for a new land of opportunity... under duress and by kidnap,” Vince argues, migrations have a long history of having “transformed” the world. She lays out a course of action for the coming decades, considering international borders (making a case with some strong stats on how immigration can improve a country’s economy, and noting that “opening borders doesn’t have to mean no borders”), the changing nature of urban environments (“Around the world, the most successful migrant cities tend to be dense but not too high”), and the need for strong social welfare policies as well as infrastructure investment (she suggests building geographically distributed low-income housing “so there are no ‘pure’ rich-only or native only neighbourhoods”). Assertive and provocative, Vince’s work is worth a look for policymakers concerned about the future of the planet.
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