Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

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She takes us on a tour of cutting-edge technologies – from mats made of algae that float on the ocean and can be used to grow crops, to particles that can be injected into the atmosphere to reflect solar radiation – while remaining clear about their limitations. In Nomad Century, Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity. She also illustrates the desperation of many current migrants by describing her visit to the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have sought sanctuary from persecution in Myanmar.Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening data and original reporting, Vince shows how migration brings benefits not only to migrants themselves, but to host countries, many of which face demographic crises and labour shortages.

Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today. If this book results in even a smidgeon more sympathy for the huge numbers of people being forced away from their homes, that will be a great thing -- Sally Hayden * Irish Times * Nomad Century is the most important book I imagine I'll ever read. Gaia Vince lays bare the scale of the challenge before us, and the grand ideas that will be needed to meet it. Ice melt and coral reef loss are already dangerously accelerating: solar reflectivity, such as cloud brightening, should be deployed without delay, and other technologies to reduce temperatures should be explored. There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without opposition: from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolivar, to Mussolini, Salazar, De Gaulle and Trump.With the government's migration policy in such appalling disarray, Gaia Vince's Nomad Century has to be the most timely book of the year. This book is a passion project born out of frustration for the way we are dealing with the biggest crisis humanity has faced in its history.