Migration will save us because it's migration that made us who we are, you say. We originated as a sort of ape in Africa, and then we colonized the whole earth. As we did that, we also changed the planet. And so now when we think of ourselves as sedentary, it's easy to say I spend most of my time in this little office in London. You know, some economists calculate that if we removed all borders, the global GDP would at least double.
In the second episode of Nature hits the books, science writer and broadcaster Gaia Vince joins us to talk about her new book Nomad Century, which looks at how climate change could render large parts of the globe uninhabitable, and how surviving this catastrophe will require a planned migration of people on a scale never seen before in human history.
Nomad Century, Gaia Vince, Allen Lane (2022)
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