Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape our World by Gaia Vince

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The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I'll ever read.Mary RoachFROM AN AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE JOURNALIST comes an urgent investigation of environmental migrationthe most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change where and how we live.An IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a crucial conversation. Bill McKibbenWe 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 youve never heard of.Drought-hit regions bleeding those 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 earths 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.
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    • Author - Gaia Vince
    • Publisher - Flatiron Books
    • Publication Date - 08-23-2022
    • Page Count - 288
    • Hardcover
    • Adult
    • Nature & Wildlife
    • 5.3 (W) x 8.2 (H) x 1.2 (D)
    • ISBN - 9781250821614
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stacyroth
3 years ago
from Columbus, IN

Needed reading

The beginnings of climate change we are seeing now are going to reshape completely the climate of the world and where on Earth people can live. Gaia Vance points out how this has looked to date and what we can expect over the next 100 years. She also outlines how humanity could best work together to minimize the impact of climate change and especially to provide safe living conditions to everyone. I wish I could make this required reading for everyone. Vance focuses her book on what the economic and politics consequences will be of billions of people needing to migrate due to climate change, as opposed to how to tackle climate change itself – there are plenty of books out there on that subject already. These are topics we need to be discussing as a society, especially those who have the power to make the changes needed. The author did a great job of narrating the audiobook herself. Many thanks to NetGalley for providing me an audio ARC of this book.

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