Gaia Vince on how climate change will shape where people live
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In the second episode of Nature hits the books, science writer and broadcaster Gaia Vince joins us to talk about her new book Nomad Century, which looks at how climate change could render large parts of the globe uninhabitable, and how surviving this catastrophe will require a planned migration of people on a scale never seen before in human history.
Nomad Century, Gaia Vince, Allen Lane (2022)
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| 1:09.9 | Hi everyone, Benjamin Thompson here. Welcome to episode two of Nature Hits the Books, where I chat with authors about their new science books. |
| 1:19.4 | In this episode, I'm joined by author and journalist Gaya Vince to talk about her book, Nomad Century, |
| 1:25.7 | how climate migration will reshape our world. |
| 1:29.1 | Gaia has been a news editor here at nature and new scientist, and her 2014 book, Adventures |
| 1:34.8 | in the Anthropocene, was awarded the Royal Society Book Prize. |
| 1:39.5 | Gaia's new book looks at how climate change could render large part of the globe uninhabitable, and how |
| 1:45.4 | surviving this catastrophe will require a planned migration of people on a scale never seen |
| 1:50.6 | before in human history. And I gave her a call to find out more about it. |
| 2:04.5 | Gaya, hi, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 2:06.0 | Hi, Ben. Great to speak to you. |
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