Nomad Century, Gaia Vince
Nomad Century, Gaia Vince
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Nomad Century
How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

Author: Gaia Vince

Narrator: Gaia Vince

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2022


Synopsis

The program is read by the author.

Nomad Century is 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. 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 who 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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

About Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince is an award-winning science journalist, author, broadcaster and speaker. She is the author of Nomad Century, Transcendence, and Adventures in the Anthropocene.


Reviews

Goodreads review by donna on August 29, 2022

I would give this five stars, but Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World was a super dense book, even for a science nerd like me. I had to read it in small spurts, because there was simply too much to absorb. I feel like it could have been presented in an easier-to-digest way, s......more

Goodreads review by Brian on August 29, 2022

At risk of saying what everyone else is saying, this is a really important book, because it's covering something that hardly anyone seems to be thinking about, but that has a huge impact on our future. It's not really a climate change science book - for that you'd be better off with something like B......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on December 17, 2022

Punchline: If you want something that's well-considered and well-researched on the topic. This book isn't it. Maybe read Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ev......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on August 27, 2022

Nomad Century by Gaia Vince is an eye opening and for me sad read. The main premise of the book is that rising temperatures and the accompanying results will necessitate that large portions of the global population will need to relocate in order to survive. It is one of the first books that I've read......more

Goodreads review by Sille on August 07, 2023

Väga tahaks, et kohalikud kliimamuutuse eitajad (eriti kui nad on ühe teatud erakonna toetajad, sest eriti nende jaoks on siin muudki potentsiaalselt silmi avavat) seda loeks, kui mitte muul põhjusel, siis äkki vähemalt natukene avarduks see vaatenurk “mis kliimamuutusest te räägite, minu akna taga......more