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The Next Great Migration
The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet
Taschenbuch von Sonia Shah
Sprache: Englisch

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'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN
'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT
'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious adaptability of life on earth'
SCOTSMAN
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We are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands in a mass exodus. Politicians and the media present this upheaval of migration patterns as unprecedented, blaming it for the spread of disease and conflict, and spreading anxiety across the world as a result.

But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behaviour, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.

Unhampered by borders, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, into the highest reaches of the Himalayan Mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, disseminating the biological, cultural and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon.

In other words, migration is not the crisis - it is the solution.
__________________Tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through to today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN
'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT
'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious adaptability of life on earth'
SCOTSMAN
__________________

We are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands in a mass exodus. Politicians and the media present this upheaval of migration patterns as unprecedented, blaming it for the spread of disease and conflict, and spreading anxiety across the world as a result.

But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behaviour, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.

Unhampered by borders, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, into the highest reaches of the Himalayan Mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, disseminating the biological, cultural and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon.

In other words, migration is not the crisis - it is the solution.
__________________Tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through to today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
Über den Autor
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prize-winning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. Her TED talk, "Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria," has been viewed by more than one million people around the world. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Zusammenfassung
Sonia Shah is a prize-winning journalist whose TED Talk, 'Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria,' has been viewed over a million times. Bill Gates picked her book The Fever one of his top four books on disease, and Pandemic was a New York Times Editors' Choice.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 400 S.
ISBN-13: 9781526629227
ISBN-10: 1526629224
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 509050
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shah, Sonia
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 195 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Sonia Shah
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,328 kg
Artikel-ID: 118999582
Über den Autor
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prize-winning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. Her TED talk, "Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria," has been viewed by more than one million people around the world. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Zusammenfassung
Sonia Shah is a prize-winning journalist whose TED Talk, 'Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria,' has been viewed over a million times. Bill Gates picked her book The Fever one of his top four books on disease, and Pandemic was a New York Times Editors' Choice.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 400 S.
ISBN-13: 9781526629227
ISBN-10: 1526629224
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 509050
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shah, Sonia
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 195 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Sonia Shah
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,328 kg
Artikel-ID: 118999582
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