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After a year in which wildfires, storms and floods have driven thousands from their homes, this book's warning about a rising population of climate migrants has a chilling resonance. What this misses is that the very process of treating parts of life as beyond politics – for example, by allowing society to be increasingly governed by market dynamics – has led to a resurgence of the “tribalism” Vince wants us to move beyond.But policymakers are in denial about the number of people who will be forced to move as the impacts of climate change become more profound, argues the scientist Gaia Vince in Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval (John Murray). I am documenting these changes, talking to ordinary people, scientists and heads of state as we enter into the Anthropocene.

While we must do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. Vince's perspectives and proposals are refreshing in a world where a Don't-Look-Up-style denial is solidly in place. But the case it makes for fresh thinking is utterly convincing -- Pilita Clark, Books of the Year * Financial Times * The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has said that she dreams of sending planes full of migrants to Rwanda. An important and provocative start to a crucial conversation -- Bill McKibben This book is a rather astounding addition to a growing body of thought that suggests the twenty-first century is going to include, and even require, lots of human migration-and that handled correctly, this could be part of a good adaptation to the climate and biosphere crisis we are now entering. Vince is optimistic about our chances of successfully managing the massive dislocation caused by warming of 4C, and does not dwell on the alternative: a world that does not cope with the displacement of billions of people.And learn more about recent developments in migration movements and the labour market inclusion of immigrants in OECD countries with the latest International Migration Outlook 2022! The climate crisis already has millions of people on the move, and that number will steadily grow higher till it breaks the political structures of the planet – unless, as the author suggests, we start now to remake those structures so they can cope, and indeed benefit, from the flow of humans that is now inevitable. I have yet to read a book that takes the question of how to survive the coming decades more seriously -- David Farrier * Prospect * A powerful, provocative argument * Nature * After a summer of climate catastrophes, not least the appalling floods that left a third of Pakistan under water at the end of August, now should be the moment to consider radical solutions -- Philippa Nuttall * New Statesman * Engaging and constructive. What Vince gives us here is some cognitive mapping to understand the situation and see a way forward -- Kim Stanley Robinson Vince's perspectives and proposals are refreshing in a world where a Don't-Look-Up-style denial is solidly in place.