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Explore the impact of humans on the planet in this beautiful new edition of Gaia Vincent’s powerful work. In recent decades human beings have altered the planet beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion-year history. We have become a force on a par with earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing a geological boundary – from the Holocene into the Anthropocene, or the Age of Man. Gaia Vince quit her job to travel the world and to explore what all these changes really mean to our daily lives. She discovers the shocking ways in which we have reshaped our living planet and reveals the ingenious solutions we’ve evolved to engineer Earth for the future. PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS

Humans are a planet-altering force. Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability - compared with other species - to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a transcendent superorganism: a hyper- cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis. Drawing on leading- edge advances in population genetics, archaeology, palaeontology and neuroscience, Transcendence compels us to reimagine ourselves, showing us to be on the brink of something grander - and potentially more destructive.

An urgent investigation into the seismic consequences of climate change reveals how it will force changes in where and how we live. We are facing a species emergency, as every degree of temperature rise threatens to displace a billion people from areas that have been habitable for millennia. While mitigating climate change is crucial, vast regions are becoming uninhabitable. From Bangladesh to Sudan and cities like Cardiff, New Orleans, and Shanghai, the combined threats of drought, heat, wildfires, and flooding will drastically alter human geography in the coming decades. The author, a Royal Society Science Book Prize winner, presents a compelling call to action, emphasizing that migration is not a problem but a solution. Utilizing extensive data and original reporting, the book illustrates how migration benefits both migrants and host countries facing demographic challenges and labor shortages. As humanity may need to relocate northwards into the habitable fringes of Europe, Asia, and the Arctic, the inevitability of mass migration remains largely overlooked. This work addresses a critical question for humanity: how to manage climate migration while restoring the planet to a livable state.

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.