The next great migration : the story of movement on a changing planet / Sonia Shah.

By:

Shah, Sonia

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020Description: 387 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789390176410 (paperback)

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DDC classification:

23 304.809 SHA 015889

Contents:

Exodus -- Panic -- Linnaeus's loathsome harlotry -- The deadly hybrid -- The suicidal zombie migrant -- Malthus's hideous blasphemy -- Homo migratio -- The wild alien -- The migrant formula -- The wall -- Coda: Safe passage.

Summary: "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. 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

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Exodus --
Panic --
Linnaeus's loathsome harlotry --
The deadly hybrid --
The suicidal zombie migrant --
Malthus's hideous blasphemy --
Homo migratio --
The wild alien --
The migrant formula --
The wall --
Coda: Safe passage.

"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. 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

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