Nomad Century

How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

By: Gaia Vince

Narrated by: Gaia Vince

The program is read by the author.

Nomad Century is 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. What exactly is happening, Vince asks? And how will this new great migration reshape us all?

In this deeply-reported clarion call, Vince draws on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, to tell us how the changes already in play will transform our food, our cities, our politics, and much more. Her findings are answers we all need, now more than ever.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

©2022 Gaia Vince (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

a must read

please stop and read this book...hopeful and essential to the planet's future...which is now!

Terrifying, but some hope.

Wow, this is NOT a feel-good book! It is painful to read, but everyone needs to know the cold, hard reality that is coming to all of us. The fools who deny climate change are part of the problem that we face, but we are all so dependent on fossil fuels. I hate to think of how bad things will have to get before we will act en masse against fossil fuels.

A rational explanation and viable solution

The author presents a scientifically sound and morally defended position critically important to our survival. Essential reading.

Another cautionary tale

Great learning on what migration and immigration mean today and the coming decades. We are so underprepared for what is coming.

A must read for anyone concerned about migration,

I listen to this book after listening to the Great Courses Audible version of the course Human Journey by the same author. The last few lectures were on current events which left me wanting to know more with references. Nomad Century filled the bill. If a book such as this is really good and worth knowing more on the subject I purchase the Kindle version. I recommend both. I have already listened to certain chapters over several times.