I am documenting these changes, talking to ordinary people, scientists and heads of state as we enter into the Anthropocene. Through astonishing interviews with powerful insiders, Blood and Oil tells how MBS's cabal played the Saudi economy and capitalised on the omnipotence of feudal power while effectively stamping out dissent, before allegations of his extreme brutality and excess began to slip out. Nomad Century will broaden your horizon when thinking about the biggest humanitarian crisis of known history. If you've ever wondered what would happen if limitless money met limitless power, wonder no longer, it's all here. A story of breath-taking dealings that range from Riyadh to London, Paris to America, this is a thrilling and brutal investigation into extreme wealth, one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders, and the bid for Saudi transformation that is reverberating around the world.

Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. But before you hit the ground, she hands over an impressively detailed survival plan: supporting radical migration from newly uninhabitable regions, rethinking urban structures and food practices, restoring climate. Got to be one of the most important books in the world today - Max Porter, author of SHY You may also be interested in. Over the next fifty years, hotter temperatures combined with more intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe lethal for 3.One way of ensuring a more just treatment of climate migrants, she suggests, is for the United Nations to create a new organisation for global migration, and to offer global citizenship to everybody alongside their national citizenships. Faced with such an inhospitable environment, Vince argues, humans will do what we have been doing throughout our evolutionary history: we will move.

Decarbonizing our economies must be done urgently and globally, including through taxation and incentives. Brought together, this new population mix can adapt and build cities capable of withstanding the new extremes of flood, fire, drought and heat. Already across the world there has been a mass exodus from the countryside to cities, but unplanned urban development had led to a proliferation of slums and shantytowns. It is, I think, easier to imagine the opposite: that many of us will move thousands of kilometres from home. There are plenty of examples in which large populations of migrants have been successfully integrated into their new communities through enlightened policymaking.Fleeing the tropics, the coasts and formerly arable lands, huge populations will need to seek new homes; you will be among them, or you will be receiving them. In the global south, extreme climate change will push vast numbers of people from their homes, with large regions becoming uninhabitable; in the planet’s more comfortable north, economies will struggle to survive demographic changes with massive workforce shortages and an impoverished elderly population.