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95/100Author:
Gaia Vince
Publisher:
Flatiron Books
Date:
August 23, 2022
An investigation of environmental migrationâthe most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change whereâand howâwe live.
What The Reviewers Say
Vince’s view of how much the planet will warm may be pessimistic, but Nomad Century is a visionary book, an attempt to imagine how climate change might reshape our notions of what is politically possible...A society in which migrants are welcomed as equals is difficult to imagine in our own political moment, when the one profligate spending plan on which both our potential prime ministers can agree is the £120 million scheme to fly 200 migrants to the overheating equator...But Vince’s long view of history shows we can do better...In the words of a Times leader she quotes from 1853: 'This country is an asylum nation, and it will defend the asylum to the last ounce of its treasure.'.
Vince’s deeply humane vision of facilitated mass migration may seem unrealistic against the current backdrop of hysteria about asylum seekers in many parts of Europe and the United States...But we do now have to contemplate an extraordinary future in which the impact of global heating makes the migration of billions inevitable...Unfortunately, the same politicians who are failing to deal properly with migration are the same ones we are depending on to avoid dangerous climate breakdown..
Gaia Vince’s Nomad Century is written for all the right reasons. But it comes to the wrong conclusions.
... includes suggestions for change at all levels.
