Former British diplomat Arthur Snell is about to publish a book that explains how climate is rapidly changing the geographic assumptions on which geopolitics is built.
Buy it now — Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It.
But first, check out this Wickedproblems.earth conversation with Arthur Snell about his new book, the first comprehensive account of the geopolitics of climate change.
In this conversation:
00:00 Arctic Ice Wake Up
00:45 War Crowds Out Climate
02:32 Chokepoints Aren’t Fixed
04:08 Meet Arthur Snell
04:22 Why Climate Is Geopolitics
08:05 Alps Collapse Story
11:01 Skiing Lobbies And Emissions
12:40 Geopolitics Map Gets Redrawn
14:59 Arctic Shipping Routes Open
18:37 Trump Greenland And Minerals
22:46 Panama Canal China Leverage
24:20 Panama Canal Leverage
25:56 Who Shapes Strategy
28:24 Migration as Hard Reality
34:55 Greenland Plans Accelerate
39:27 Russia China North Shift
42:28 Wine and Adaptation
44:36 Book Plug and Farewell
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