Science journalist Gaia Vince, author of “Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey To The Heart Of The Planet We Made” and “Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time,” will be featured at Caltech’s Behind the Book discussion series on Tuesday Nov. 15, from 6 to 8 p.m.
In the virtual event, she will be speaking about her latest book, “Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World.” This is a pre-recorded conversation with Tapio Schneider, Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Caltech.
As climate change dominates the headlines, Vince is at the forefront of one aspect of this crisis that most don’t know is already underway: climate migration. In “Nomad Century,” she breaks down the effects global warming will have on emigration, which will force billions from their homes as countries become increasingly uninhabitable.
“You will be among them, or you will be receiving them,” Vince writes with sobering clarity, arguing that it will be climate migration, not climate mitigation, that will come to define the 21st century.
“My latest book, ‘Nomad Century,’ is a manifesto for how migration will help us survive the climate crisis – and it details how we can manage it while restoring our planet to a liveable state,” she writes on her website, www.wanderingGaia.com.
Vince is particularly interested in how human systems and Earth’s planetary systems interact. She has traveled the world extensively to research it. She continues to write articles for the BBC, The Guardian, New Scientist, Australian Geographic, and Science, and presents science documentaries for radio and television.
Vince has also held senior editorial positions at the science journal Nature, Nature Climate Change, and New Scientist magazine. She’s also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL’s Anthropocene Institute.
Attendance at the virtual presentation is free, but registration is required to reserve your spot. To RSVP, go to https://events.caltech.edu/series/behind_the_book/Gaia_Vince.
For more information, call (626) 395-4652.
