Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023 and shortlisted for the Zcalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing Gaia Vinces new book should be read not just by every politician but by every person on the planet ObserverAn urgent investigation of the most underreported seismic consequence of climate change how it will force us to change where and how we liveWe are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. 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. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai the quadruple threat of drought heat wildfires and flooding will utterly reshape Earths human geography in the coming decades.In this rousing call to arms Royal Society Science Book Prizewinning author Gaia Vince describes how we can plan for and manage this unavoidable climate migration while we restore the planet to a fully habitable state. The vital message of this book is that migration is not the problem its the solution. Drawing on a wealth of eyeopening 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. As Vince describes we will need to move northwards as a species into the habitable fringes of Europe Asia and Canada and the greening Arctic circle.While the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. In Nomad Century Vince provides for the first time an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity.