ISBN10: 0241522315, ISBN13: 9780241522318, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London] Hardcover Hardcover. An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we liveWe 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0241522315, ISBN13: 9780241522318, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London] Hardcover Hardcover. An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we liveWe 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0241522315, ISBN13: 9780241522318, [publisher: Penguin Books] Hardcover pp. 288
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2022]

ISBN10: 0241522315, ISBN13: 9780241522318, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 1.06
[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2022]

ISBN10: 0241522315, ISBN13: 9780241522318, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover First Edition First Edition thus, as good as new. Nomad Century by Gaia Vince. Published by Allen Lane in 2022. Hardcover ISBN:9780241522318. Collectible item in excellent condition.
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