Surviving the New Geography of Climate Change

Within this century, the new era of extreme weather will threaten India’s ability to grow rice, prevent southern Europe’s farms from providing the continent with fresh produce, and make building in Saudi Arabia near impossible. While such unprecedented challenges inevitably drive conflict, they will also encourage innovation, upending economies and global power structures to create opportunities for new players and pioneering ways of living.

In conversation with Peter Frankopan, Arthur Snell presents Elemental, his new book and ground breaking study that shows how we can live on a warming planet. The world he describes sees Africa powering Europe with solar energy; autocratic oil states are no more; and new shipping routes across the melting Arctic bring Asia, Europe and North America closer than ever before.

Through four sections – Earth, Air, Fire and Water – Elemental blends reportage with analysis and interviews with key experts, policymakers and politicians, to reveal the turbulent…