Next Great Migration - Softcover

The Next Great Migration

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. 387 pages. Cover dog-eared. Some water damage.A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesavi ng power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration patterns as un precedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflic t and waves of anxiety across the Western world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of i nvading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countrie s respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed bo rders that were historically porous. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different stor y. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any cost , migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmenta l change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Clim ate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. F alling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unha mpered by barbed wire, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, catapulting us into the highest reaches of the Himala yan mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, creatin g and disseminating the biological, cultural, and social diversit y that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migr ation is not the crisis--it is the solution. Conclusively trackin g the history of misinformation from the 18th century through tod ay's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes th e case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, b ut of hope--. Seller Inventory # 237s

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