Nomad Century

How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

By: Gaia Vince

Narrated by: Gaia Vince

Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

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!

Interesting predictions, unrealistic expectations

I picked this up to based on an article by the author to read (listen) more about potential migration patterns of the coming century due to climate change. This book does talk about metropolitan growth and global migrations, but the perspectives are often unrealistic in my opinion. I appreciate the vision that we're heating the planet at an alarming rate thus my interest in the book, but find the author's perspective on governmental selflessness impractical. Unfortunately as governments consistently demonstrate, migration acceptance isn't going to come easily (read at all) and there aren't strategic solutions offered in the book other than sporadic examples of green energy efforts (would love to have seen this in a more comprehensive chapter). There's statements to the effect of migration is required and local populations will loose their culture, but they'll just learn to accept it. Perhaps the book would of felt a bit more practical to me had the author laid out a clearer outline defining the global warming issue (done in chapter 1), best case scenarios for migration patterns (the rest of the book), and finally proposed practical strategies to realize those patterns (non existent).

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.

Great listen

If you are interested in thinking more deeply about climate migration, this is a great place to start. Some ideas may seem far fetched but likely not. Her analysis of where we will be with respect to temps are inline with others I’ve read and heard. And her suggested outcomes just seem to follow from those predictions rather than be wild guesses or ideological.

Solid work. Lots of work to do.

Doom and Gloom

only read if you're looking to motivate yourself for suicide. Apparently I need 15 words in order to fill out a review

Poorly thought out drivel.

Painful speculation by a narcissist. The basis of the arguments made is contrived, relying on occasional truths to hold the reader. The authors inability to focus on the subject, rather than her impertinent personal experience is saddening. Climate change is real. Human migration is real. This book is a waste of time by a London urbanite who has a flawed ideological agenda.

Too many Horrible Things

While we all (don't we?) agree that Climate Change is real, is largely man-made and may well bring terrible things to the planet- including us- Vince spends more time as a Rallying Writer than Scientist. She literally gives one sentence to the most basic issue- too many people on this planet, saying only we can't talk about that and it will take care of itself anyway. Yes we can talk about it, and we must.
As the solution to the problem, she tells us to get ready for great movements of people to medium and high-rise integrated mega cities. The world she describes sounds like hell to me, as it will to many others. And paying for this monster projects is glossed over as like magic. It will not happen. Her descriptions of the growth of economies and enriched people in these megacities is fantasy.
Some of the info about the coming warming will be greeted as motivating fact by those of us already believers, but will do little to move the Nevers. But her solution is too steeped in white guilt and financial fantasies to be of use.
I am disappointed.