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" Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer 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. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we must do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat of drought, heat, wildfires and flooding will utterly reshape Earth's human geography in the coming decades. In this rousing call to arms, Royal Society Science Book Prize-winning author Gaia Vince describes how we can plan for and manage this unavoidable climate migration while we restore the planet to a fully habitable state. The vital message of this book is that migration is not the problem - it's the solution. Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening data and original reporting, Vince shows how migration brings benefits not only to migrants themselves, but to host countries, many of which face demographic crises and labour shortages. As Vince describes, we will need to move northwards as a species, into the habitable fringes of Europe, Asia and Canada and the greening Arctic circle. While the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. In Nomad Century , Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity. "
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Biographisches: " Gaia Vince is an honorary senior research fellow at UCL and a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist , and her writing has appeared in the Guardian , The Times and Scientific American . Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than 60 countries, lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene ." Rezension(2): "New Statesman:With the government's migration policy in such appalling disarray, Gaia Vince's Nomad Century has to be the most timely book of the year. Vince's calm, compassionate and authoritative explanation of the inevitability of migration is essential reading... There should be a copy on every desk in Whitehall" Rezension(3): "Financial Times:A tour de force... Nomad Century should be on the reading list of anyone and everyone in any position of power. It is not simply a future atlas of human geography showing where will be habitable and for how many, but a hard-hitting must-read on how we will need to live in the coming decades to secure the long-term survival of humankind" Rezension(4): "New Statesman:After a summer of climate catastrophes, not least the appalling floods that left a third of Pakistan under water at the end of August, now should be the moment to consider radical solutions" Rezension(5): "Irish Times: Nomad Century is a landmark work - terrifying in its message and urgency, but ultimately empowering in its conviction about a path forward. Gaia Vince lays bare the scale of the challenge before us, and the grand ideas that will be needed to meet it. We must be ready,this book shows us how" Rezension(6): "Geographical:Once again Gaia Vince demonstrates that she is one of the finest science writers at work today" Rezension(7): "New Statesman:The climate crisis already has millions of people on the move, and that number will steadily grow higher till it breaks the political structures of the planet - unless, as the author suggests, we start now to remake those structures so they can cope, and indeed benefit, from the flow of humans that is now inevitable. An important and provocative start to a crucial conversation" Rezension(8): "Financial Times:This book is a rather astounding addition to a growing body of thought that suggests the twenty-first century is going to include, and even require, lots of human migration-and that handled correctly, this could be part of a good adaptation to the climate and biosphere crisis we are now entering. What Vince gives us here is some cognitive mapping to understand the situation and see a way forward" Rezension(9): "New Statesman:Vince's perspectives and proposals are refreshing in a world where a Don't-Look-Up-style denial is solidly in place... If this book results in even a smidgeon more sympathy for the huge numbers of people being forced away from their homes, that will be a great thing" Rezension(10): "Geographical: Nomad Century is the most important book I imagine I'll ever read. Gaia Vince calmly 8212" Rezension(11): "Politics Home:Terrifying, yet strangely hopeful and immensely important. I'm not sure if you can 'love' a book about our precarious future but this is essential reading. Nomad Century brings together the two most pressing issues of our time: the climate emergency and migration. Every single one of us will be affected by this - and therefore we should all read this book. It's packed with..." Rezension(12): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: 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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