5/30/2023 0 Comments Pandemic sonia shah sparknotesOn both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were historically porous.īut the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western world. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. 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.
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