Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

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The coming migration of billions of people from the tropics can be planned, with new cities constructed to accommodate the climate migrants and provide them with the opportunity to build new lives.

A story of breath-taking dealings that range from Riyadh to London, Paris to America, this is a thrilling and brutal investigation into extreme wealth, one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders, and the bid for Saudi transformation that is reverberating around the world. Nomad Century is a landmark work – terrifying in its message and urgency, but ultimately empowering in its conviction about a path forward. Previously, I have held senior editorial positions at the science journal Nature, Nature Climate Change, and New Scientist magazine. We need to redirect the productive capacity of society to address climate change and the looming demographic crisis. But today we lack a coherent plan; we are simply experiencing our world heating up, and reacting to each new shock – each drought, each typhoon, each blazing forest, each heaving boat of migrants – with a new patch-​­up.

Gaia Vince calmly — without drum-banging or hand-wringing — sets forth likely consequences and end-of-century projections for our rapidly changing planet. Decarbonizing our economies must be done urgently and globally, including through taxation and incentives. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.

In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. But we do now have to contemplate an extraordinary future in which the impact of global heating makes the migration of billions inevitable. Fleeing the tropics, the coasts and formerly arable lands, huge populations will need to seek new homes; you will be among them, or you will be receiving them. This is a unique time in Earth’s history, in which climate change, globalisation, communications technology and increasing human population are changing our world – and us – as never before. Over the next fifty years, hotter temperatures combined with more intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe lethal for 3.The saga of Boris Johnson and Brexit frequently crops up in this author's narrative as a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon. 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. 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.

The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has said that she dreams of sending planes full of migrants to Rwanda.I am documenting these changes, talking to ordinary people, scientists and heads of state as we enter into the Anthropocene. Blood and Oil is the explosive untold story of how Mohammed bin Salman and his entourage grabbed power in the Middle East and acquired a network of Western allies - including well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians - all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince.