Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

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There are plenty of examples in which large populations of migrants have been successfully integrated into their new communities through enlightened policymaking. 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 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.

I make and present science documentaries for radio and television, and I give talks around the world. If you've ever wondered what would happen if limitless money met limitless power, wonder no longer, it's all here.Over the next fifty years, hotter temperatures combined with more intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe lethal for 3. Already across the world there has been a mass exodus from the countryside to cities, but unplanned urban development had led to a proliferation of slums and shantytowns. A tour de force… Nomad Century should be on the reading list of anyone and everyone in any position of power. In the global south, extreme climate change will push vast numbers of people from their homes, with large regions becoming uninhabitable; in the planet’s more comfortable north, economies will struggle to survive demographic changes with massive workforce shortages and an impoverished elderly population.

I am documenting these changes, talking to ordinary people, scientists and heads of state as we enter into the Anthropocene. In Nomad Century, Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken.

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