Arthur Snell – Elemental: How We Will Live on a Warming Planet

‘An extraordinary mastery of geopolitics and a deep ethical concern for the world in the face of catastrophe. A masterpiece’ – Rory Stewart

With over 30 years’ experience in conflict zones and fragile states, Arthur Snell travels from the heat of the Sahel to the Arctic Circle to show how climate change is coinciding with a breakdown in geopolitical order, increasing conflict and economic crises. Within our lifetimes, rising temperatures, sea levels and scarcity will inevitably drive both conflict and mass migration globally. When the rain wrecks India’s ability to grow rice, the heat makes building impossible in Saudi Arabia, wildfires rage through America’s most populated regions, and in Russia huge areas of highly fertile land are exposed by the melting ice, what will living on a warmer planet actually look like?

 Arthur Snell is an expert on the interaction between geopolitics and climate change with a degree in History from the University of Oxford. He has over 30 years’ experience in conflict zones and fragile states throughout the Middle East and Africa, and advised governments – including Ukraine during the current conflict – on a range of security- and conflict-related issues. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest think tank, a former British Ambassador, and has hosted numerous podcasts which have had millions of downloads.