Thank you to Macmillan Audio for the ARC, in exchange for an honest review.
I stopped listening to this audiobook around 3 chapters in and could not bring myself to keep listening. While this might be a fine book when reading the hard copy version, I had one major issue with the audiobook: it does not list or cite its references at all. A printed copy might have references listed throughout each page to back up Vince’s arguments, but when we are only hearing her thoughts without any citations, it sounds like paragraph after paragraph of conjecture. Further, this book is certainly for those (like myself) who want to learn more about the future of climate migration and already have a fairly good understanding of the climate crisis. It might be more difficult of a read for anyone who doesn’t already have the scientific background on the subject.
I’m still very interested in Vince’s topic and I will pick up the printed version soon.

The beginnings of climate change we are seeing now are going to reshape completely the climate of the world and where on Earth people can live. Gaia Vance points out how this has looked to date and what we can expect over the next 100 years. She also outlines how humanity could best work together to minimize the impact of climate change and especially to provide safe living conditions to everyone.

I wish I could make this required reading for everyone. Vance focuses her book on what the economic and politics consequences will be of billions of people needing to migrate due to climate change, as opposed to how to tackle climate change itself – there are plenty of books out there on that subject already. These are topics we need to be discussing as a society, especially those who have the power to make the changes needed. The author did a great job of narrating the audiobook herself.

Many thanks to NetGalley for providing me an audio ARC of this book.

I am a better person after having read this book - that I am certain of. I will be walking the world more aware and sensitive to my environment and the people around me. I will embrace immigrants with every bit of love I possess. This book has changed me. It is both inspiring and powerful, but also disheartening and cruel. The author makes it seem like it is all but inevitable that we will reach a point of no return, and sadly she is probably correct. She tries her best to infuse hope into this at every turn, but the constant barrage of facts that make it seem unlikely that we will ever turn the world around made it hard to digest this. I had to read it in short spirts because it was affecting my mood so deeply. This has a lot of practical solutions that our world should be implementing. and in some parts of the world they are, but not as many as we need to be. This was well researched and PACKED with facts, history, and climate solutions. This was an excellently written, although not easily read due to the heavy nature of what's written.

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for access to the audiobook of Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia Vince in exchange for an honest review.

“Consider this future world with empathy for your elderly self.”
“Climate change is everything change, because climate is the fabric on which we weave our lives.”

If you’re looking for a far more hopeful alternative book to Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, look no further than Nomad Century. The author carefully paints a picture of how the world will change with the devastating effects of climate change, and what will accomplish as humans to not only survive, but thrive.

I appreciate the author’s statement that most people will become plant based over the next 10 years without even thinking about it. I’ve been saying this with such frustration for so long! How do we reduce use of single use plastics? Stop making them available. How to we reduce meat consumption? Stop making it available. How do we eat produce in its appropriate season? Stop making non-seasonal fruits and vegetables available. If the COVID pandemic has taught us anything, it is that humans are extremely adaptable. We will quickly get used to buying only what is available, which will effortlessly be better for the environment, AND, most critically, take the decision out of consumer’s hands. The proposed changes and adaptations to our current cities felt reasonable, realistic, and attainable in the here and now. I am so tired of the doom and gloom surrounding much of discussion of climate change, and I'm ready for changes to become a reality. Gaia Vince made positive change seem possible and inevitable. We CAN and WILL do this together.

I would give this five stars, but Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World was a super dense book, even for a science nerd like me. I had to read it in small spurts, because there was simply too much to absorb. I feel like it could have been presented in an easier-to-digest way, so it felt less like a textbook and more everyman friendly.

Plus, it was disheartening, even though the author tried desperately to infuse hope into her message. If we get everything right, and turn things around, which seems quite the stretch with the "I got mine" mentality running rampant in the world, and especially in America, then we might be okay. Might. But will the right people hear the message and act for the good of all? Or should we all start planning to move to Iceland?

My sons claim I won't stop talking about this book, and that means it's impacting me in all the right ways. I'm a better person for knowing, but also terrified. What can just one person do? I guess we'll find out.

This book starts by talking about immigration through climate change which has already started happening. Vince has good discussion points on why immigration is not bad, and actually improves the country they are entering. There is discussion on what we have been doing and what we should be doing along with the consequences of what will happen if we do little or nothing. This is a very thought-provoking book on many hot button topics.

Very thought-provoking. There is a lot of discussion around climate change, but looking at it from the angle of how it will impact where people can live and how this will change our world is interesting. I've always wanted to live on the coast... maybe I'll get a chance someday... but how long would that coast be there? I enjoyed the discussion about how immigration affects local economies as well. We've spent so long destroying the planet, we need to start figuring out how to fix it. Lots of ideas here and plenty to think about.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the ALC in exchange for my honest review.

Absolutely adored this book! What a powerful call to action for human beings everywhere.

There was so much information in this text that I'd never considered before, notably the impacts of rampant unregulated fires on our collective health, even in countries that are not currently experiencing hectares of burning land!!! This concept of air currents transporting pollutants across the globe was so horrifying and illuminating and necessary for readers to learn.

I can't wait to share videos / reviews of this title across all of my socials, encouraging my followers to pre-order this book. It's so necessary and timely!! I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to read it.