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EU FAILURE: 2/4: Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia Vince (Author)

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

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EU FAILURE: 2/4: Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World  by  Gaia Vince  (Author)

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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batson with Gaya Vince. Her new book is Nomad

0:09.7

Century, How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World. We begin with the migrants of the Global

0:15.9

South, needing to move because of the four-horsmen of the Anthropocene,

0:26.1

which is the debatable era replacing Holocene is where we live right now.

0:29.9

However, there what can go wrong and why?

0:30.6

We know it.

0:31.8

It's in the news already.

0:32.3

Borders.

0:39.5

Or the interception of human traffickers in the Mediterranean or in the North Sea, turning back people who are looking for anything better than where they're coming from because of climate

0:44.3

change and because of bad governance. Bad governance and climate change tend to go together.

0:49.4

It might be a phenomenon. It might be a one-to-one correlation. But I mention the fact that we're all migrants.

0:57.2

Gai, it's not only my family and all of our families here in America, reading through a

1:02.5

history of Julius Caesar, he built his reputation on his brutality towards the tribes of Germany

1:10.0

and France that were moving in Gaul.

1:13.0

That he slaughtered them in great number and bragged about it back in Rome.

1:17.8

We've been moving for thousands of years and has determined our histories.

1:23.0

But borders, borders were important to the Romans.

1:26.2

Borders are important here in the North America.

1:28.8

What needs to be done about borders? How do we rethink our borders? Yeah, well, you're absolutely

1:34.9

right. We've been moving not just hundreds of years, but hundreds of thousands of years.

1:39.9

I mean, we're an ape that evolved somewhere in Africa, two to three hundred thousand years ago.

1:47.0

And look at us now.

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