Gaia Vince

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change—how it will force us to change where, and how, we live. We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western...

Transcendence by Gaia Vince is a TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019, revealing the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth. Humans are a planet-altering force. Our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. Yet we evolved through the same process. What are we...