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Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
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"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 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.
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"Vince's view of how much the planet will warm may be pessimistic, but Nomad Century is a visionary book, an attempt to imagine how climate change might reshape our notions of what is politically possible...A society in which migrants are welcomed as equals is difficult to imagine in our own political moment, when the one profligate spending plan on which both our potential prime ministers can agree is the £120 million scheme to fly 200 migrants to the overheating equator...But Vince's long view of history shows we can do better...In the words of a Times leader she quotes from 1853: 'This country is an asylum nation, and it will defend the asylum to the last ounce of its treasure.'"
"The bigger truth is that Vince's perspective and proposals are refreshing in a world where a Don't Look Up-style denial is solidly in place ..."
"Vince's deeply humane vision of facilitated mass migration may seem unrealistic against the current backdrop of hysteria about asylum seekers in many parts of Europe and the United States...But we do now have to contemplate an extraordinary future in which the impact of global heating makes the migration of billions inevitable...Unfortunately, the same politicians who are failing to deal properly with migration are the same ones we are depending on to avoid dangerous climate breakdown."
"British science writer Vince, a former editor at Nature and New Scientist and author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, mounts compelling dual arguments: Global warming must be controlled, and on a planet beset by fire, heat, drought, and flood, mass migration will be necessary for survival...'Fleeing the tropics, the coasts and formerly arable lands, huge populations will need to seek new homes,' the author predicts; 'you will be among them, or you will be receiving them'...In a text that bristles with urgency, Vince counters 'anti-migration rhetoric and misinformation' with abundant evidence showing that immigrants make positive economic, social, and cultural contributions to the society in which they settle...The redistribution of populations, however, will not reverse unsustainable behaviors and policies, and Vince devotes much of her well-researched book to considering bold changes...Geoengineering innovations may deflect heat away from Earth, and wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal power can obviate the burning of fossil fuels...A striking manifesto for sweeping change."
"Assertive and provocative, Vince's work is worth a look for policymakers concerned about the future of the planet."
"Vince recognizes some of the difficulties, noting that for her plan to succeed, humans would first have to abandon racism, chauvinism and nationalism and become citizens of the world."
"Consider primarily for specialized collections."
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