EU FAILURE: 1/4: Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia Vince (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 9 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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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.0 | Nomad Century, the new book from Gaia Vince, |
| 0:14.4 | how climate migration will reshape our world. |
| 0:19.0 | Here in the 21st century, |
| 0:20.7 | we're looking at some very towering statistics |
| 0:24.2 | that warn that what we accept as a climate today is not the climate of the near future, 2050 and |
| 0:31.6 | 2100. And Gaia Vince's book, for which I congratulate her, takes us into the future with an extremely |
| 0:39.4 | happy twist of the technology and the will of the people of the earth. |
| 0:46.1 | I begin, however, with reports from the most recent meeting people worrying about climate change |
| 0:51.8 | to read to characterize what work Gaia has done for us to |
| 0:56.6 | imagine the future. One such executive from the Center for Science and Environment in New |
| 1:04.1 | Delhi, attending COP 27 in Cairo, Egypt said, the negotiations that are happening are completely devoid of reality. |
| 1:14.4 | Another critic of the conditions of the world meeting, |
| 1:18.4 | 45,000 people coming together to discuss between Cairo and Charmel Sheikh, the resort, |
| 1:25.4 | what is to be done. |
| 1:26.7 | Another critic said, I've never seen anything like this. |
| 1:29.4 | We've reduced the whole thing into a grand spectacle. |
| 1:32.2 | It is not a grand spectacle. |
| 1:34.3 | And I begin with an example that Gaia gives us of migration already underway. |
| 1:40.8 | The man's name is Abel Cruz. |
| 1:42.9 | He lives in a rural part of Peru, and one day he's given the opportunity to move to Lima, better jobs and education for his children. However, the whole thing is something of a sham. He shows up with money and polyethylene sheets in what will become his home. It's a sandpile at the |
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