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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.
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Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has a chemistry degree and writes for newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Times, Scientific American, New Scientist and Nature. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. In 2015, she became the first woman to win outright the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize for her debut, ADVENTURES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: A Journey To The Heart Of The Planet We Made. Her latest book, about human cultural evolution, is TRANSCENDENCE: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time. She currently lives in London, where she dreams of the tropics and blogs at WanderingGaia.com.
