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Gaia Vince’s latest book, “Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World,” isn’t what you would call an uplifting read. Her main thesis is, bluntly, that climate change is here, and it’s fundamentally reshaping how we live — droughts, famines, floods, wildfires, and extreme weather are forcing people, on a large scale, to move. Also: It’s probably going to get worse.
But according to Vince, there’s a silver lining. If we accept this new reality now, we still have time to manage the movement of all of these people in an equitable, democratic way. We can reimagine our attitudes toward immigrants and handle the changes with a measure of grace that will not only ease the transition for everyone, but may even lead to a more fair world than the one we live in now.