4/4: Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World Hardcover – August 23, 2022 by Gaia Vince (Author)
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4/4: Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World Hardcover – August 23, 2022 by Gaia Vince (Author)
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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| 0:29.7 | No mad centuries to book, I'm John Batch with Guy Events and we're now restoring a planet |
| 0:40.2 | that's been damaged badly by climate change in the 20th century and the 21st century. |
| 0:46.8 | And the restoration is technological, so I need Guy to translate some of this. We have |
| 0:52.2 | BECCS, Bioenergy and Carbon Capture and Storage. We have good old fashioned CCS, Carbon |
| 1:00.1 | Capture and Storage. We have Ocean Fertilization, wonderful story. Let's begin there. Ocean Fertilization, |
| 1:08.1 | we've got what, three-fifths of the planet. So we've got a lot to work with. What does |
| 1:12.4 | it look like, Guy, and what benefit will we get from it? |
| 1:15.4 | Well, I mean, so at the moment, oceans are already very depleted. They are 30% more |
| 1:21.7 | acidic than they were in pre-industrial times. And that means that coral reefs and other |
| 1:28.1 | shell-building organisms really struggle to, they need a lot more energy to build their |
| 1:33.7 | shells. It's much hotter, so coral reefs are on their way to extinction in the next |
| 1:40.5 | couple of decades. It's an absolutely terrible story. But we can start the restoration process |
| 1:48.6 | and we need to start it now. So Ocean Fertilization is something that could work. At the moment, |
| 1:56.0 | we haven't done nearly the trials that we need to do for it, and it's still very controversial. |
| 2:01.4 | But oceans are naturally fertilized by this limiting factor, which is iron, which flows. |
| 2:10.8 | It's blown off the deserts of the Sahara and the Namibian deserts into the ocean, where |
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