2026-04-15
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As the climate crisis accelerates, how will it reshape the balance of power between nations?
On today's episode, Arthur Snell, former British diplomat and author, joins Adam McCauley to discuss his new book,
Elemental, The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It,
and what a heating planet means for geopolitics, security, and the future of international cooperation.
Let's join our host Adam McCauley now with more.
Welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm your host, Adam McCauley.
Rising sea levels, crop decimating droughts, air too hot and wet for humans to survive,
storms of the century each and every year, environments so inhospitable that the only option is migration.
These are the headlines of our climate reality and the expected crises of our coming century.
They are, as many readers already know, topics both politically charged and existentially challenging.
And our guest today, Arthur Snell, the author,
podcast host, former British ambassador and associate fellow of RUSI, has attempted a nearly insurmountable journey.
In his new book, Elemental, Arthur carries us to the summit of the mountain so we might cast our eyes
down and across the extensive terrain of these issues.
We are left sobered, not because climate change is the only thing that will alter our Earth,
but because every part of our world will be changed by our altered climate.
Arthur joins us today, not unlike Virgil, as a guide for our journey into the inferno.