Gaia Vince Knihy

We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.6 billion-year history. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing into the Anthropocene - the Age of Humans. Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age to see what life is really like for the people on the frontline of the planet we've made. From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, Gaia found people doing the most extraordinary things to solve the problems that we ourselves have created. These stories show what the Anthropocene means for all of us - and they illuminate how we might engineer Earth for our future.

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 of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we must do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat of drought, heat, wildfires and flooding will utterly reshape Earth's human geography in the coming decades. In this rousing call to arms, Royal Society Science Book Prize-winning author Gaia Vince describes how we can plan for and manage this unavoidable climate migration while we restore the planet to a fully habitable state. The vital message of this book is that migration is not the problem - it's the solution. Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening data and original reporting, Vince shows how migration brings benefits not only to migrants themselves, but to host countries, many of which face demographic crises and labour shortages. As Vince describes, we will need to move northwards as a species, into the habitable fringes of Europe, Asia and Canada and the greening Arctic circle. While the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. In Nomad Century, Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity.

Der Begriff Anthropozän für das Zeitalter des Menschen ist hochaktuell und in aller Munde. Doch was bedeuten die radikalen Umweltveränderungen schon jetzt ganz konkret für Menschen und Orte? Wie verändern wir unseren Planeten? Welche Bedeutung hat für uns »Natur«? Um dies herauszufinden, reiste die Umweltjournalistin Gaia Vince für ihr Buch ›Am achten Tag‹ zwei Jahre lang um die Welt. Dabei sammelte sie spannende, kuriose, hoffnungsvolle und bedrückende Geschichten. Sie stellt etwa Bewohner der Malediven vor, die mit dem steigenden Meeresspiegel umgehen müssen und berichtet von einem Dorf im Himalaya, das durch künstliche Gletscher seine Wasserversorgung verbessern will. Außerdem sprach sie mit Farmerinnen in Afrika, die uralte Anbaumethoden mit neuester Genforschung verknüpfen. In einem frischen Schreibstil erzählt die Autorin dabei aus dem Blickwinkel der betroffenen Menschen. Sie entwirft ein sehr aktuelles und reales - aber durchaus auch optimistisches - Bild unseres menschengemachten Planeten.

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