Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

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She highlights the wealth of evidence showing that it enriches both migrants and their destinations and attacks the rhetoric of British politicians and media who seek to demonise asylum seekers who arrive on our shores.

While the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. Nomad Century brings together the two most pressing issues of our time: the climate emergency and migration. 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.Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.

The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump's march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs, and ends with a defence of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government. Vince's perspectives and proposals are refreshing in a world where a Don't-Look-Up-style denial is solidly in place. 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.Most of these migrants will try to move north from the tropics, seeking to settle eventually in countries such as Canada and Russia, where the climate will have changed but which will still be inhabitable.

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. This migration has already begun – we have all seen the streams of people fleeing drought-hit areas in Latin America, Africa and Asia where farming and other rural livelihoods have become impossible. While not shying away from the scale of the challenges, she doesn't give in to fatalism or inertia: '[We] are facing a species emergency - but we can manage it -- Books of the Year * Geographical * My first choice is Nomad Century by Gaia Vince, a brilliant and disturbing analysis of how climate change will affect the world's migration patterns. An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live.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.

If you've ever wondered what would happen if limitless money met limitless power, wonder no longer, it's all here. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. It is, I think, easier to imagine the opposite: that many of us will move thousands of kilometres from home.Over the next fifty years, hotter temperatures combined with more intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe lethal for 3.