The Next Great Migration: The Beauty And Terror Of Life On The Move - 9781635577860

A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. Dislocated people are on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, and news media present this scrambling of the planet's migration patterns as unprecedented, tapping into fears of the spread of disease and conflict and provoking waves of anxiety across the Western world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, and anti-immigration leaders have slammed closed borders that were historically porous. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, catapulting us into the highest reaches of the Himalayan mountains and the most remote islands of the pacific, creating and 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. Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the eighteenth century through 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 hope.

• | Author: Sonia Shah
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• | Publication Date: October 05, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1635577861
• | ISBN-13: 9781635577860