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The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times – Alexis Wright

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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How Far Will We Go to Survive?

There is no doubt that it is getting harder for our people to continue to survive, even though we have endured here for millennia. A recent New York Times article says that 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone and this figure may increase to 19% by 2070. Without urgent action on climate change, roughly a billion people will be pushed outside the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. How far will we go to survive? In writing the Swan book, I answered my questions. Of course, we can never truly know the future, as people continue to say that we have always governed ourselves. Indeed, our resolve has grown stronger. We create new ways

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