Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

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Vince's calm, compassionate and authoritative explanation of the inevitability of migration is essential reading.

With the government’s migration policy in such appalling disarray, Gaia Vince’s Nomad Century has to be the most timely book of the year.There are plenty of examples in which large populations of migrants have been successfully integrated into their new communities through enlightened policymaking. In Nomad Century, Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity. We need to redirect the productive capacity of society to address climate change and the looming demographic crisis. The climate crisis already has millions of people on the move, and that number will steadily grow higher till it breaks the political structures of the planet - unless, as the author suggests, we start now to remake those structures so they can cope, and indeed benefit, from the flow of humans that is now inevitable.

Gaia Vince calmly — without drum-banging or hand-wringing — sets forth likely consequences and end-of-century projections for our rapidly changing planet. Blood and Oil is the explosive untold story of how Mohammed bin Salman and his entourage grabbed power in the Middle East and acquired a network of Western allies - including well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians - all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince. While not shying away from the scale of the challenges, she doesn't give in to fatalism or inertia: '[We] are facing a species emergency - but we can manage it -- Books of the Year * Geographical * My first choice is Nomad Century by Gaia Vince, a brilliant and disturbing analysis of how climate change will affect the world's migration patterns. Nomad Century will broaden your horizon when thinking about the biggest humanitarian crisis of known history. Vince makes clear that political hostility to migrants is often based on prejudice rather than fact.Populations in the global north – the wealthier, cooler parts of the world towards which many people may flee – are ageing rapidly and workforces are becoming too small to support elderly people. This isn't a distant or unrealistic prospect: climate models suggest we're currently heading towards a 3°C-4°C rise by the end of the century - less than three generations away.

Nomad Century is a landmark work - terrifying in its message and urgency, but ultimately empowering in its conviction about a path forward. But we do now have to contemplate an extraordinary future in which the impact of global heating makes the migration of billions inevitable. T he OECD Forum Network is a space for experts and thought leaders—from around the world and all parts of society— to discuss and develop solutions now and for the future. One way of ensuring a more just treatment of climate migrants, she suggests, is for the United Nations to create a new organisation for global migration, and to offer global citizenship to everybody alongside their national citizenships.With the government's migration policy in such appalling disarray, Gaia Vince's Nomad Century has to be the most timely book of the year. And learn more about recent developments in migration movements and the labour market inclusion of immigrants in OECD countries with the latest International Migration Outlook 2022! She also illustrates the desperation of many current migrants by describing her visit to the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have sought sanctuary from persecution in Myanmar. The result would be widespread and perpetual conflict across the world, and a tragic new chapter of suffering in human history.

The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump's march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs, and ends with a defence of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government. But today we lack a coherent plan; we are simply experiencing our world heating up, and reacting to each new shock – each drought, each typhoon, each blazing forest, each heaving boat of migrants – with a new patch-​­up.

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. A tour de force… Nomad Century should be on the reading list of anyone and everyone in any position of power. If you've ever wondered what would happen if limitless money met limitless power, wonder no longer, it's all here.