My wife is an avid book reader both non-fiction and fiction. This non-fiction book she brought home a hard copy of because she doesn't like E-Readers. She prefers an old fashioned book either hardback like this one or a paperback. I am interested in this subject because of the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica because oceans worldwide will likely rise about 16 feet within the next 10 to 20 years. If you look at the globe and see that Miami and Venice, Italy will be underwater as well as New Orleans, this is a good place to start. For example, where I live about a mile away from the ocean is about 100 feet or more high. So, there are many houses as well as roads along the ocean where they likely will be underwater some or all of the times or especially during winter storms when the tides are high and the waves sometimes get 30 feet high where I live. I have seen surfers surf these 30 foot waves using jet skis for takeoff and rescue within a few miles of where i live in the winter time. Many houses now get seaweed on their front porches from ocean waves when we get waves like this in the storms of winter. And this is now, imagine what happens when the ocean worldwide is 16 feet higher onto all the lands of earth bordering an ocean?
Begin quote from front flap of book:
Climate change is making our world unlivable. Migration is how we will survive. Here' how we make it work.
The world is becoming ever more dangerous as the planet heats. Climate change is devastating wildland and farmland, endangering food supplies, and exacerbating conflict. Drought, heat, wildfire, floods and storms are already uprooting people everywhere. Billions of people will be driven from their homes in the coming decades: you will be among them or receiving them. But, there is a solution. IN Nomad Century, Gaia Vince describes a total remapping of the earth's human geography away from the most perilous regions to new centers in the far north. Embracing humanity's ancient survival strategy of migration will require global cooperation--but it could save us all.
End partial quote from the front flap of this book.
It is published by Flatiron Books.
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