From an award-winning science journalist comes Nomad Century , an urgent investigation of environmental migration--the most underreported, seismic consequence of our Climate crisis that Will force us to change where--and how--we live.
Her findings are answers we all need, now more than ever..
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.
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.
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.
Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction.
Coastlines diminishing year on year.
Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable.
This is the biggest human crisis you\'ve never heard of.
We can survive, but to do so Will require a planned and deliberate Migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. --Bill McKibben We are facing a species emergency.
The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I\'ll ever read.--Mary Roach An IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a crucial conversation.
From an award-winning science journalist comes Nomad Century , an urgent investigation of environmental migration--the most underreported, seismic consequence of our Climate crisis that Will force us to change where--and how--we live
