4/4: Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia Vince (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Nomad-Century-Climate-Migration-Reshape/dp/1250821614
Drought-hit regions bleeding those 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.
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| 0:46.8 | And the restoration is technological, so I need Gaya to translate some of this. |
| 0:51.9 | We have BECCS, bioenergy and carbon capture and storage. |
| 0:57.4 | We have good old fashion CCS carbon capture and storage. We have ocean fertilization, wonderful story. Let's begin there. |
| 1:07.0 | Ocean fertilization, we've got what, three-fifths of the planet, so we've got a lot to work with. |
| 1:12.4 | What does it look like, Guy, and what benefit will we get from it? |
| 1:15.2 | Well, I mean, so at the moment our oceans are already very depleted. They are 30% more acidic than they were in pre-industrial times and that's that means |
| 1:26.5 | coral reefs and other shell-building organisms really struggle to they need a lot |
| 1:32.3 | more energy to build their shells. |
| 1:34.3 | It's much hotter, so you know coral reefs are on their way to extinction in the next couple of decades. |
| 1:41.4 | It's a absolutely terrible story. But we can you know we can |
| 1:46.4 | start the restoration process and we need to start it now so ocean fertilization is is something that could work. |
| 1:55.0 | At the moment we haven't done nearly the trials that we need to do for it and it's still very controversial, |
| 2:01.0 | but oceans are naturally fertilized by this limiting |
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