Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

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Vince's book makes a persuasive case that we can meet the momentous tasks ahead * Geographical * The UN's International Organisation for Migration predicts as many as 1.

Gaia Vince calmly — without drum-banging or hand-wringing — sets forth likely consequences and end-of-century projections for our rapidly changing planet.

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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 -- Anjana Ahuja * Financial Times * Essential, bold and clear-sighted. The disaster of the past decade is that rightwing populists have undermined efforts both to mitigate climate change and protect refugees by playing on people’s feelings that political institutions no longer work in their interests. 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. Who would have believed that so many of us would have voluntarily restricted our movements to within metres of our homes?What Vince gives us here is some cognitive mapping to understand the situation and see a way forward -- Kim Stanley Robinson Vince's perspectives and proposals are refreshing in a world where a Don't-Look-Up-style denial is solidly in place. Vince leaves the reader with more than a few sparks of hope * Herald * Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet, because it lays out, much more clearly than any existing scientific assessment, the world we are creating through global heating. This book is a passion project born out of frustration for the way we are dealing with the biggest crisis humanity has faced in its history. T he OECD Forum Network is a space for experts and thought leaders—from around the world and all parts of society— to discuss and develop solutions now and for the future.

What this misses is that the very process of treating parts of life as beyond politics – for example, by allowing society to be increasingly governed by market dynamics – has led to a resurgence of the “tribalism” Vince wants us to move beyond.Fleeing the tropics, the coasts and formerly arable lands, huge populations will need to seek new homes; you will be among them, or you will be receiving them. This means having the courage to envision a different way of being a human: in effect, unsticking people from their fixed abodes and setting them free to roam, free to seek the safe places.

Decarbonizing our economies must be done urgently and globally, including through taxation and incentives. I have been blown away by the generous support NOMAD CENTURY has received from reviewers, including some of the people I most admire. 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. 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.

Blood and Oil is the explosive untold story of how Mohammed bin Salman and his entourage grabbed power in the Middle East and acquired a network of Western allies - including well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians - all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince. A tour de force… Nomad Century should be on the reading list of anyone and everyone in any position of power. 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. But today we lack a coherent plan; we are simply experiencing our world heating up, and reacting to each new shock – each drought, each typhoon, each blazing forest, each heaving boat of migrants – with a new patch-​­up. The coming migration of billions of people from the tropics can be planned, with new cities constructed to accommodate the climate migrants and provide them with the opportunity to build new lives.