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Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince is a British science writer and broadcaster focused on climate change, human evolution, migration, and the Anthropocene. She wrote Adventures in the Anthropocene, which won the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, and Nomad Century, bringing environmental change and future displacement to a broad international readership.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Gaia Vince is a British-Australian science writer and broadcaster whose work has consistently linked human stories to planetary systems. Australian-born and brought up between Australia and the United Kingdom, and coming from a family marked by postwar migration, she has often approached movement, adaptation, and belonging as lived realities rather than abstractions. Her academic training began in chemistry and physics, later extended into engineering and journalism, and she moved through senior editorial roles at Nature, Nature Climate Change, and New Scientist before becoming widely known as an author in her own right. That combination of scientific literacy, editorial discipline, and field reporting became the basis of her public voice. ((https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/2-december/features/features/a-world-on-the-move?utm_source=openai))

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Citations

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Climate disasters are inevitable; they do not have to be catastrophic
-Extreme weather is our new reality
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Love and empathy are what enable us to cooperate with complete strangers and create the social networks on which we all depend
-To avert climate disaster
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We are living inside the imagination of our ancestors
-Does climate breakdown mean we’re doomed?
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Migration made us; entangling our social networks of cooperation, fusing and forging new cultural, technological and behavioural innovations, from languages to cities to nations
-Leaders should finally tell us the truth about migration
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If humanity really is at the controls, then it is drunk
-Consider the heatwave and floods
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Climate change is in most cases survivable; it is our border policies that will kill people
-The century of climate migration
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We are of such intermixed ancestry that we are all related to each other within a few tens of generations
-Ancient yet cosmopolitan
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Extreme weather events are now so regular that calling them extreme seems extreme
-Fifty years after the Gaia hypothesis was first published, understanding it is more vital than ever
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The internet offers unparalleled promise of cooperation and communication between all of humanity
-What causes good people to turn bad online?
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So to be monolingual, as many native English speakers are, is to be in the minority, and perhaps to be missing out
-The benefits of being bilingual

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Voix de la Communauté

"Gaia Vince's Nomad Century has to be the most timely book of the year"

New Statesman ((

"Gaia Vince lays bare the scale of the challenge before us, and the grand ideas that will be needed to meet it"

Ed Yong ((

"Gaia Vince shows us how to stay steady and cheerful despite the ever intensifying drama of the Anthropocene"

James Lovelock ((

"Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet"

Observer ((

"Gaia Vince calmly sets forth likely consequences and end-of-century projections for our rapidly changing planet"

Mary Roach ((

"Gaia Vince's important book provides the context to show the stunning speed and magnitude of the human footprint"

David Suzuki ((

"Once again Gaia Vince demonstrates that she is one of the finest science writers at work today"

Bill Bryson ((

"Gaia Vince's colourful survey fizzes like a zip-wire as it tours our species' story"

Richard Wrangham ((

"As Gaia Vince amply demonstrates, what was once a personal question has become the central question for us as a species"

Ken Caldeira ((

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