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NOMAD CENTURY - GAIA VINCE GEBUNDEN

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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