S8 Ep267: RETHINKING BORDERS AND THE ECONOMIC NECESSITY OF HUMAN MOBILITY Colleague Gaia Vince. Vince argues that while humans have migrated for hundreds of thousands of years, modern borders currently restrict the world's most valuable economic resource: human lab

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

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RETHINKING BORDERS AND THE ECONOMIC NECESSITY OF HUMAN MOBILITY Colleague Gaia Vince. Vince argues that while humans have migrated for hundreds of thousands of years, modern borders currently restrict the world's most valuable economic resource: human labor. She suggests that removing these barriers could significantly boost global GDP, noting that current restrictions are ill-suited for a world facing climate catastrophe. As the Global North faces a demographic crisis with aging populations, Vince asserts these nations need immigrants to sustain their economies. She advocates for managing migration through "social investment" and inclusivity rather than brutality, ensuring that new arrivals are viewed as assets rather than threats. NUMBER 2
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0:36.6	I'm John Batson with Gaya Vince.
0:38.6	Her new book is Nomad Century,
0:40.5	how climate migration will reshape our world.
0:43.7	We begin with the migrants of the global south,
0:47.0	needing to move because of the four-horsmen of the Anthropocene,
0:51.3	which is the debatable era replacing Holocene is where we live right now.
0:57.0	However, what can go wrong and why? We know it. It's in the news already. Borders. Or the
1:03.7	interception of human traffickers in the Mediterranean or in the North Sea, turning back people
1:10.0	who are looking for anything better than where they're coming from because of climate change and because of bad governance.
1:16.6	Bad governance and climate change tend to go together. It might be a phenomenon. It might be a one-to-one correlation.
1:23.4	But I mention the fact that we're all migrants. Guy, it's not only my family and all of our families here in America.
1:31.4	Reading through a history of Julius Caesar, he built his reputation on his brutality
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