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Gaia Vince

    Gaia Vince is a British environmental journalist and non-fiction author whose work delves into the intricate relationship between humanity and the natural world. She navigates the complexities of our changing planet, offering insightful perspectives on environmental challenges and potential futures. Vince's writing is characterized by its clarity and engagement, prompting readers to consider our collective path forward. Her approach synthesizes scientific understanding with compelling narratives.

    Das nomadische Jahrhundert
    Nomad Century
    Adventures in the Anthropocene : A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made
    • Das nomadische Jahrhundert

      Wie die Klima-Migration unsere Welt verändern wird | Vince bietet einen realistischen Blick auf Migration als Antwort auf Umweltveränderungen und die damit verbundenen Chancen. Ein Aufruf zur globalen Kooperation.

      Waldbrände und Wirbelstürme verursachen zunehmend Verwüstung, während Regenfälle verheerende Fluten auslösen und Dürregebiete unfruchtbar werden. Der Klimawandel ist allgegenwärtig, was in den letzten zehn Jahren zu einer Verdopplung der weltweiten Migration geführt hat. In den kommenden Jahrzehnten werden Milliarden von Menschen aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben. Die preisgekrönte Journalistin Gaia Vince untersucht, wie Klimamigration unsere Nahrungsmittelversorgung, Städte und Politik beeinflussen wird und bietet dringend benötigte Antworten. Ihr Werk ist aufwendig recherchiert, brillant geschrieben und vereint erschreckende sowie hoffnungsvolle Aspekte. Es thematisiert den Klimanotstand und Migration, die jeden von uns betreffen werden. Die Autorin liefert Fakten, Lösungen und Optimismus. Bill Bryson bezeichnet sie als eine der besten Wissenschaftsautorinnen, während die Financial Times das Buch als Pflichtlektüre für das Überleben der Menschheit lobt. Vince hinterlässt den Leser mit mehr als nur einem Funken Hoffnung und bietet eine mitfühlende Erklärung der Unvermeidbarkeit von Migration. Ihr Werk ist eine unverzichtbare Lektüre zu einem lebenswichtigen Thema.

      Das nomadische Jahrhundert2023
    • Nomad Century

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      “We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you’ve never heard of.”Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the earth’s human geography. As Gaia Vince points out early in Nomad Century , global migration has doubled in the past decade, on track to see literal billions displaced in the coming decades. What exactly is happening, Vince asks? And how will this new great migration reshape us all?In this deeply-reported clarion call, Vince draws on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, to tell us how the changes already in play will transform our food, our cities, our politics, and much more. Her findings are answers we all need, now more than ever.

      Nomad Century2022
      3.8
    • We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.6 billion-year history. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing into the Anthropocene - the Age of Humans. Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age to see what life is really like for the people on the frontline of the planet we've made. From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, Gaia found people doing the most extraordinary things to solve the problems that we ourselves have created. These stories show what the Anthropocene means for all of us - and they illuminate how we might engineer Earth for our future.

      Adventures in the Anthropocene : A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made2014
      4.1