Nomad Century - coming later in the year...

This is coming in August 2022, and sounds like being a particularly useful book for those exploring aspects of the Anrhropocene and the continuing climate emergency. It joins other books by David Wallace Wells, Parag Khanna and others to explore the impacts on people.

The publisher's description says the following:

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live.

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 greening Arctic circle.

While the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. In Nomad Century, Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity.

There are several people in the current Government that clearly need to read this book when it is published...

Update
I have an advance reading copy of the book and will share my thinking in July.

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