GLOBAL SOUTH ARRIV1ING: 3/4: Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World Hardcover – August 23, 2022 by Gaia Vince (Author)
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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 a series |
| 0:05.0 | This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:08.0 | Nomad Century is the book How Climate Migration will reshape our world, the author Gaya Vince. |
| 0:13.0 | We build the cities of the future. |
| 0:15.0 | The global south is moving to the north. |
| 0:18.0 | It is not stopping. |
| 0:20.0 | It will continue for the balance of this century. |
| 0:23.0 | We begin with an example that Gaea gives us, |
| 0:25.0 | this quite wonderful about imagining a world, |
| 0:28.0 | the undiscovered country of the future, |
| 0:30.0 | where a farmer in Gujarat, India, who can no longer maintain his family because the |
| 0:37.4 | soil becomes overheated, it is not as arable, drought is a constant problem. He applies for migration for he and his family. |
| 0:45.4 | There's a form he fills out. He indicates what cities he'd like to move to and |
| 0:50.7 | what he and his wife can do when they get there. |
| 0:53.4 | There are obligations when you fill this form out. |
| 0:56.5 | He asks for Ottawa, he asks for Manchester. |
| 1:00.4 | However, he's assigned to Aberdeen, Scotland, a wonderful city dominated by fossil fuel in the 20th century, |
| 1:07.0 | but here it is in the 21st century, and he and his wife have to promise to work when they get there for a job of giving them. |
| 1:14.2 | He takes up work, she takes up work, the children go to school and several years later he's |
| 1:21.7 | satisfies the work ethic that is required for a migrant and then he's thinking about |
| 1:27.2 | starting a store to sell insulation with he and his partners. |
| 1:32.3 | That is a success story that is commonplace in the United States. |
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