Nomad Century is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where – and how – we live. While the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. Here, Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity.
Gaia Vince is an honorary senior research fellow at UCL and a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, The Times and Scientific American. Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than 60 countries, lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene.