Dimensions
162 x 240 x 33mm
The world in 2050 will be radically different from today. Northern countries - notably Canada, Russia and Scandinavia - will rise at the expense of southern ones. Places like New Zealand, Argentina and interior Brazil will also be winners. Patterns of human migration will be dramatically altered and where we are born will be crucial. Laurence Smith attempts to predict how the 'four locomotives' will shape the world between now and 2050. The New North is a book about people, and the 'push' and 'pull' factors that determine where and how they live. This is not a doomsday script. All of human history is a story of adaptation and change, in response to our environment and to each other. Despite our booming numbers we are healthier, safer, better fed, more knowledgeable, and less violent that ever before. The population boom is slowing, our prosperity generally rising. And as our coastlines inundate and the deserts encroach, there will be new homelands for us throughout the high latitudes and high altitudes, places currently marginal for human existence. The 'New North' is on the immediate horizon.
